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Erpetosuchidae
Taxonomy
Erpetosuchidae was named by Watson (1917). It is not extant. Its type is Erpetosuchus.
It was assigned to Procrocodilia by Nopcsa (1928); to Pseudosuchia by Kuhn (1946); to Ornithosuchoidea by Kuhn (1964); to Chirotherioidea by Kuhn (1966); to Thecodontia by Watson (1917) and Carroll (1988); to Archosauria by Nesbitt and Butler (2012); and to Pseudosuchia by Lacerda et al. (2018).
It was assigned to Procrocodilia by Nopcsa (1928); to Pseudosuchia by Kuhn (1946); to Ornithosuchoidea by Kuhn (1964); to Chirotherioidea by Kuhn (1966); to Thecodontia by Watson (1917) and Carroll (1988); to Archosauria by Nesbitt and Butler (2012); and to Pseudosuchia by Lacerda et al. (2018).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1917 | Erpetosuchidae Watson p. 180 |
| 1928 | Erpetosuchidae Nopcsa p. 186 |
| 1946 | Erpetosuchidae Kuhn p. 64 |
| 1964 | Erpetosuchidae Kuhn p. 320 |
| 1966 | Erpetosuchidae Kuhn p. 72 |
| 1988 | Erpetosuchidae Carroll |
| 2012 | Erpetosuchidae Nesbitt and Butler |
| 2018 | Erpetosuchidae Lacerda et al. |
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Fm. †Erpetosuchidae Watson 1917
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| S. J. Nesbitt and R. J. Butler 2012 | Erpetosuchidae differs from all other archosauriforms in dentition present only in the anterior half of the maxilla [character 17, state 1], mediolateral length of the posterior portion of the maxilla greater than the dorsoventral length [21–1] and tooth serrations absent [168–1]. |
Measurements
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| Source: subo = suborder, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Benton 1983, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Anisian | Tanzania (Ruvuma) | Parringtonia gracilis (64085) | |
| Ladinian | Argentina (La Rioja) | Erpetosuchidae indet. (195243) | |
| Ladinian - Carnian | Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul) | Pagosvenator candelariensis (193001) | |
| Carnian - Norian | United Kingdom (Scotland) | Erpetosuchus granti (57948) | |
| Norian | USA (Connecticut) | Erpetosuchus sp. (62843) |