Reptilia - Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
Alternative spelling: Thoracosauridae
Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1871. On the homologies of some of the cranial bones of the Reptilia, and on the systematic arrangement of the class. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 19:194-247
Parent taxon: Crocodylidae according to A. C. Myrick 2001
See also Bryant 1989, Carpenter 1983, Cope 1871, Cope 1875, Domning and Clark 1993, Hay 1930, Kuhn 1966, Nopcsa 1928 and Storrs and Efimov 2000
Sister taxa: Aldabrachampsus, Charactosuchus, Crocodylinae, Euthecodontinae, Leptorramphus, Osteolaeminae, Oxysdonsaurus, Oxysdonsaurus striatus, Tzaganosuchus, Zhyrasuchus
Subtaxa: none
Type: Thoracosaurus
Distribution: found only at Malaya Serdoba (Cretaceous of Russian Federation)