| 词条 | Culebrasuchus |
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| taxon = Culebrasuchus | fossil_range = Early-Mid Miocene (Hemingfordian) ~{{fossil range|20.6|16.3}} | authority = Hastings et al., 2013 | type_species = {{extinct}}Culebrasuchus mesoamericanus | type_species_authority = Hastings et al., 2013 }}Culebrasuchus is an extinct genus of caiman (a type of crocodilian) known from the Early to Middle Miocene (Hemingfordian) of the Panama Canal Zone of Panama. It contains a single species, Culebrasuchus mesoamericanus.[1] DiscoveryCulebrasuchus was first described and named by Alexander K. Hastings, Jonathan I. Bloch, Carlos A. Jaramillo, Aldo F. Rincona and Bruce J. Macfadden in 2013 based on a single holotype skull and three neck vertebrae from the Culebra Formation. Culebrasuchus is thought to be the most basal member of Caimaninae, meaning that it represents the earliest radiation of caimans in the Americas. The ancestor of Culebrasuchus likely lived farther north, perhaps in what is now southern Mexico, because before the Miocene most of Panama was underwater. The movement of Culebrasuchus into the Panama Canal Zone was an early part of the Great American Interchange in which animals dispersed between North and South America across the newly formed Isthmus of Panama (although during the Early Miocene it had not yet formed, with 20 km of ocean still separating the continents). However, Culebrasuchus was not the earliest caimanine; Orthogenysuchus and Tsoabichi are known from the Eocene of North America and Eocaiman is known from the Eocene of South America, indicating that caimanines were dispersing between the continents across large expanses of ocean long before the isthmus formed.[1]DescriptionLike many living caimans, Culebrasuchus was small in size. Other caimans that lived during the same time in South America (including those in the genera Mourasuchus and Purussaurus) were much larger than Culebrasuchus. Features that Culebrasuchus shares in common with other caimanines include nostrils that open upward (rather than slightly forward, as in alligatorines), and bones that do not overlap the edges of two openings in the skull table called supratemporal fenestrae. Like living caimanines, Culebrasuchus has blunter teeth at the back of the jaw, and the teeth in the upper jaw completely overly the teeth in the lower jaw when the mouth is closed. Features in Culebrasuchus that are not found in other caimanines include the lack of ridges above the eye sockets and the large size of a hole in the lower jaw called the external mandibular fenestra. These features may be plesiomorphic ("primitive") for alligatorids. Culebrasuchus also has a straighter lower jaw than most other alligatorids, it lacks the ridges on the frontal bone between the eye sockets that are common among crocodylians, and the fourth tooth of the maxilla (rather than third, as in almost all other alligatorids) is the largest in the upper jaw.[1] PhylogenyBelow is a cladogram from the 2013 description of Culebrasuchus showing its phylogenetic position as the most basal caimanine:[1] {{clade| style=font-size:85%;line-height:85%|1={{clade |1={{extinct}}Stangerochampsa mccabei |2={{clade |1={{extinct}}Brachychampsa montana |2={{extinct}}Brachychampsa sealeyi}} |label3= Alligatoridae |3={{clade |1=Alligatorinae |label2=Caimaninae |2={{clade |1={{extinct}}Culebrasuchus mesoamericanus |2={{clade |1={{extinct}}Eocaiman cavernensis |2={{clade |1={{extinct}}Tsoabichi greenriverensis |2={{clade |1={{clade |1=Paleosuchus palpebrosus |2=Paleosuchus trigonatus}} |2={{clade |1={{clade |1={{extinct}}Centenariosuchus gilmorei |2={{clade |1={{extinct}}Purussaurus neivensis |2={{clade |1={{extinct}}Mourasuchus spp. |2={{extinct}}Orthogenysuchus olseni}} }} }} |2={{clade |1={{clade |1=Caiman crocodilus |2=Caiman yacare}} |2={{clade |1=Caiman latirostris |2={{extinct}}Caiman lutescens |3={{clade |1={{extinct}}Melanosuchus fisheri |2=Melanosuchus niger}} }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }} See also{{Portal|Crocodiles|Neogene|Paleontology}}
References1. ^1 2 3 {{Cite journal | last1 = Hastings | first1 = A. K. | last2 = Bloch | first2 = J. I. | last3 = Jaramillo | first3 = C. A. | last4 = Rincon | first4 = A. F. | last5 = MacFadden | first5 = B. J. | title = Systematics and biogeography of crocodylians from the Miocene of Panama | doi = 10.1080/02724634.2012.713814 | journal = Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology | volume = 33 | issue = 2 | pages = 239 | year = 2013 | pmid = | pmc = }} {{Extinct Crocodilia|A.}}{{Taxonbar|from=Q6424491}} 8 : Alligatoridae|Prehistoric reptile genera|Burdigalian life|Miocene reptiles of North America|Hemingfordian|Neogene Panama|Fossils of Panama|Fossil taxa described in 2013 |
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