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Atoposauridae
Taxonomy
Atoposaurides was named by Gervais (1871). It was considered monophyletic by Wu et al. (1996) and Thies et al. (1997) and Schwarz-Wings et al. (2011).
It was corrected as Atoposauridae by Zittel (1890), Lortet (1892), Jaekel (1911), Kuhn (1946), Kuhn (1966), Wellnhofer (1971), Buffetaut (1982), Carroll (1988), Wu et al. (1996), Thies et al. (1997), Storrs and Efimov (2000), Sereno et al. (2001), Sereno et al. (2003), Gasparini et al. (2006), Martin et al. (2010), Schwarz-Wings et al. (2011), Montefeltro et al. (2013) and Turner (2015); it was reranked as the unranked clade Atoposauridae by Tennant et al. (2016).
It was assigned to Brevirostres by Zittel (1890); to Eusuchia by Lortet (1892); to Crocodili by Jaekel (1911); to Metamesosuchia by Buffetaut (1982); to Mesosuchia by Kuhn (1946), Kuhn (1966), Wellnhofer (1971) and Carroll (1988); to Crocodylia by Thies et al. (1997); to Crocodyliformes by Gasparini et al. (2006); to Metasuchia by Sereno et al. (2001), Sereno et al. (2003) and Schwarz-Wings et al. (2011); to Eusuchia by Turner (2015); and to Neosuchia by Wu et al. (1996), Storrs and Efimov (2000), Martin et al. (2010), Montefeltro et al. (2013) and Tennant et al. (2016).
It was corrected as Atoposauridae by Zittel (1890), Lortet (1892), Jaekel (1911), Kuhn (1946), Kuhn (1966), Wellnhofer (1971), Buffetaut (1982), Carroll (1988), Wu et al. (1996), Thies et al. (1997), Storrs and Efimov (2000), Sereno et al. (2001), Sereno et al. (2003), Gasparini et al. (2006), Martin et al. (2010), Schwarz-Wings et al. (2011), Montefeltro et al. (2013) and Turner (2015); it was reranked as the unranked clade Atoposauridae by Tennant et al. (2016).
It was assigned to Brevirostres by Zittel (1890); to Eusuchia by Lortet (1892); to Crocodili by Jaekel (1911); to Metamesosuchia by Buffetaut (1982); to Mesosuchia by Kuhn (1946), Kuhn (1966), Wellnhofer (1971) and Carroll (1988); to Crocodylia by Thies et al. (1997); to Crocodyliformes by Gasparini et al. (2006); to Metasuchia by Sereno et al. (2001), Sereno et al. (2003) and Schwarz-Wings et al. (2011); to Eusuchia by Turner (2015); and to Neosuchia by Wu et al. (1996), Storrs and Efimov (2000), Martin et al. (2010), Montefeltro et al. (2013) and Tennant et al. (2016).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1890 | Atoposauridae Zittel p. 675 |
| 1892 | Atoposauridae Lortet p. 91 |
| 1911 | Atoposauridae Jaekel p. 164 |
| 1946 | Atoposauridae Kuhn p. 64 |
| 1966 | Atoposauridae Kuhn p. 83 |
| 1971 | Atoposauridae Wellnhofer p. 136 |
| 1982 | Atoposauridae Buffetaut p. 18 |
| 1988 | Atoposauridae Carroll |
| 1996 | Atoposauridae Wu et al. |
| 1997 | Atoposauridae Thies et al. |
| 2000 | Atoposauridae Storrs and Efimov p. 408 |
| 2001 | Atoposauridae Sereno et al. p. 1518 |
| 2003 | Atoposauridae Sereno et al. |
| 2006 | Atoposauridae Gasparini et al. p. 72 |
| 2010 | Atoposauridae Martin et al. |
| 2011 | Atoposauridae Schwarz-Wings et al. |
| 2013 | Atoposauridae Montefeltro et al. |
| 2015 | Atoposauridae Turner |
| 2016 | Atoposauridae Tennant et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Unr. †Atoposauridae Gervais 1871
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G. †Alligatorellus Gervais 1871
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†Alligatorellus bavaricus Tennant and Mannion 2014
†Alligatorellus beaumonti Gervais 1871
†Alligatorellus beaumonti bavaricus Wellnhofer 1971
G. †Atoposaurus von Meyer 1850
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†Atoposaurus jourdani Meyer 1850
†Atoposaurus oberndorferi Meyer 1850
G. †Knoetschkesuchus Schwarz et al. 2017
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†Knoetschkesuchus guimarotae Schwarz and Salisbury 2005
†Knoetschkesuchus langenbergensis Schwarz et al. 2017
G. †Sabresuchus Tennant et al. 2016
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†Sabresuchus ibericus Brinkman 1992
†Sabresuchus sympiestodon Martin et al. 2010
G. †Theriosuchus Owen 1878
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†Theriosuchus grandinaris Lauprasert et al. 2011
†Theriosuchus morrisonensis Foster 2018
G. †Varanosuchus Pochat-Cottilloux et al. 2024
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†Varanosuchus sakonnakhonensis Pochat-Cottilloux et al. 2024
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available