Sebecidae

Sebecids; Temporal range: Paleocene–Middle Miocene PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Skull of Sebecus icaeorhinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	†Sebecosuchia
Clade:	†Sebecia
Family:	†Sebecidae; Simpson, 1937
Subgroups
	See text
Synonyms
	Bretesuchidae Gasparini, Fernandez & Powell, 1993;

Sebecidae is an extinct family of prehistoric terrestrial sebecosuchian crocodylomorphs. Sebecids were diverse, abundant and broadly distributed in South America (mostly in Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia) during the Cenozoic, until the Middle Miocene;[1] although it has been suggested that at least some forms could have survived until the Miocene-Pliocene boundary in Brazil.[2]

This group included many medium- and large-sized genera, from Sebecus to a giant indeterminate unnamed species from the Miocene.[3]

Phylogeny

The following cladogram simplified after Diego Pol and Jaime E. Powell (2011).[1]

Sebecidae

Lorosuchus

Diego Pol and Jaime E. Powell (2011). "A new sebecid mesoeucrocodylian from the Rio Loro Formation (Palaeocene) of north-western Argentina". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 163: S7–S36. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00714.x.
Liccardo, Antonio, and Luiz Carlos Weinschütz. "Registro inédito de fósseis de vertebrados na Bacia Sedimentar de Curitiba (PR) Archived 2015-06-02 at the Wayback Machine." Revista Brasileira de Geociências 40.3 (2010): 330-338.
Salias-Gismondi, R.; Antoine, P. O.; Baby, P.; Brusset, S.; Benammi, M.; Espurt, N.; de Franceschi, D.; Pujos, F.; et al. (2007). Middle Miocene Crocodiles From the Fitzcarrald Arch, Amazonian Peru (PDF). Instituto Geológical y Minero de España. p. 4. ISBN 978-84-7840-707-1. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 4, 2009. Retrieved May 12, 2010.

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