偉鱷獸科

偉鱷獸科（（学名：），屬於獸孔目恐頭獸亞目的貘頭獸下目，是一科肉食性或雜食性（可能也有草食性）動物。如同其他貘頭獸類，偉鱷獸科動物有厚頭顱骨，可能用來互相以頭撞擊。牠們出現在二疊紀中期。牠們有大型犬齒，牠們的門齒非常強壯。偉鱷獸科與其他恐頭獸類是近親，例如麝足獸等貘頭獸科。最著名的偉鱷獸科動物包括：姜氏獸與偉鱷獸。如同其他恐頭獸類，牠們在二疊紀-三疊紀滅絕事件中滅絕了。

參考資料
 L. D. Boonstra, "The Fauna of the Tapinocephalus Zone (Beaufort Beds of the Karoo)", Annals of the South African Museum, 56 (1) 1969, pp. 1–73
 Carroll, R. L. Vertebrate paleontology and evolution. -W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988
 Edwin H. Colbert, Evolution of the Vertebrates, 2nd edition, 1969, John Wiley & Sons
 James A. Hopson and Herbert R. Barghusen, "An Analysis of Therapsid Relationships", in The Ecology and Biology of Mammal-Like Reptiles ed. by Nocholas Hotton III, Paul D. MacLean, Jan J. Roth and E. Carol Roth, Smithsonian Institute Press, Washington and London, 1986, pp.83–106
 Gillian M. King, "Anomodontia" Part 17 C, Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology, Gutsav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart and New York, 1988

外部連結
Titanosuchidae at Kheper website. 

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