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Alrausuchus tagax

Alrausuchidae

Taxonomy
Biarmosuchus tagax was named by Ivakhnenko (1990). Its type specimen is PIN 3706/10, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Peza-1, PIN 3706, Lower Mezen' River, which is in a Kazanian/Urzhumian terrestrial horizon in the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Alrausuchus.

It was synonymized subjectively with Biarmosuchus tener by Battail and Surkov (2000); it was recombined as Alrausuchus tagax by Ivakhnenko (2008).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1990Biarmosuchus tagax Ivakhnenko
2003Biarmosuchus tagax Ivakhnenko
2008Alrausuchus tagax Ivakhnenko

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
—Eutherapsida
suborderDinocephalia
suborderDinocephalida
infraorderEotitanosuchina
familyAlrausuchidae
genusAlrausuchus
speciestagax(Ivakhnenko 1990)

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.

†Alrausuchus tagax Ivakhnenko 1990
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Diagnosis
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