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Rutiodon carolinensis

Reptilia - Parasuchidae

Taxonomy
Rutiodon carolinensis was named by Emmons (1856). Its type specimen is Williams College uncat., now USNM 214513, a partial skeleton (Five teeth, vertebral centrum, vertebrae and ribs, neural spine, fragment of interclavicle), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is New Egypt coal mine, which is in a Norian terrestrial horizon in the Cumnock Formation of North Carolina. It is the type species of Rutiodon.

It was recombined as Belodon caroliniensis by Lyman (1894); it was recombined as Phytosaurus carolinensis by Hay (1902).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1856Rutiodon carolinensis Emmons pp. 302, 307
1857Rutiodon carolinensis Emmons p. 82
1894Belodon caroliniensis Lyman p. 207
1902Phytosaurus carolinensis Hay p. 510
1930Rutiodon carolinensis Hay p. 145
1941Rutiodon carolinensis Colbert and Chafee p. 15
1962Rutiodon carolinensis Gregory p. 2
1989Rutiodon carolinensis Hunt and Lucas p. 346
1995Rutiodon carolinensis Doyle and Sues p. 546
1995Rutiodon carolinensis Long and Murry
2010Rutiodon carolinensis Stocker p. supplement
2013Rutiodon carolinensis Stocker and Butler

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
RankNameAuthor
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
—Pseudosuchia(Zittel 1890)
—Phytosauria(Jaeger 1828)
familyParasuchidaeLydekker 1885
subfamilyMystriosuchinaevon Huene 1915
genusRutiodon
speciescarolinensis

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.

†Rutiodon carolinensis Emmons 1856
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Diet: carnivoreg
Created: 2009-01-03 21:12:01
Modified: 2009-01-03 23:12:01
Source: g = genus, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Benton 1983

Age range: Norian or 228.00000 to 208.50000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Norian228.0 - 208.5USA (North Carolina) Rutiodon carolinensis (type locality: 99429)
Norian228.0 - 208.5USA (Pennsylvania) Belodon caroliniensis (59371) Rutiodon carolinensis (105836)
Norian228.0 - 208.5USA (New Jersey) Rutiodon carolinensis (12856)