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Sunosuchus miaoi

Osteichthyes - Goniopholididae

Taxonomy
Sunosuchus miaoi was named by Young (1948). Its type specimen is IVPP V500, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Hanchiahukou, which is in a Jurassic terrestrial claystone/sandstone in the Xiangtang Formation of China.

Entered
by R. Benson on 2012-08-01

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1948Sunosuchus miaoi Young p. 258
1984Sunosuchus miaoi Buffetaut and Ingavat
2003Sunosuchus miaoi Maisch et al.
2009Sunosuchus miaoi Schellhorn et al.
2012Sunosuchus miaoi Bronzati et al.
2015Sunosuchus miaoi Puértolas-Pascual et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
RankNameAuthor
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
—Pseudosuchia(Zittel 1890)
—SuchiaKrebs 1974
—Paracrocodylomorpha
—Loricata(Merrem 1820)
—Crocodylomorpha()
—Solidocrania
suborderCrocodyliformes
—MesoeucrocodyliaWhetstone and Whybrow 1983
—NeosuchiaClark 1988
—Coelognathosuchia()
familyGoniopholididaeCope 1875
genusSunosuchus
speciesmiaoi

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.

†Sunosuchus miaoi Young 1948
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available