Wannchampsidae

Wannchampsidae is an extinct family of neosuchian crocodyliforms known from the mid-Cretaceous of the United States. The family includes the genera Thikarisuchus, as well as the unnamed 'Pachycheilosuchus#The "Glen [Rose Form"|Glen Rose form]'.

Classification

In their phylogenetic analysis, Allen et al. recovered Thikarisuchus as a member of an unresolved clade also including Wannchampsus and an unnamed specimen nicknamed the 'Glen Rose form'. The authors named this clade Wannchampsidae. This group is the sister taxon to Atoposauridae, which is in turn the sister to Paralligatoridae. These results are displayed in the cladogram below: