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Spinosuchus caseanus

Reptilia - Trilophosauridae

Taxonomy
Spinosuchus caseanus was named by Huene (1932). Its type specimen is UMMP 7507, a set of vertebrae, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is west bank of Blanco River, northern breaks, which is in a Carnian/Norian terrestrial claystone in the Tecovas Formation of Texas. It is the type species of Spinosuchus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1932Spinosuchus caseanus Huene p. 37 fig. 4
1939Spinosuchus caseanus Kuhn p. 38
1940Spinosuchus caseanus Huene p. 284
1970Spinosuchus caseanus Steel p. 12
1984Spinosuchus caseanus Welles p. 174
1997Spinosuchus caseanus Murry and Long p. 192
2007Spinosuchus caseanus Nesbitt et al. p. 225
2009Spinosuchus caseanus Spielmann et al.

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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
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
familyTrilophosauridaeGregory 1945
genusSpinosuchus
speciescaseanus

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.

†Spinosuchus caseanus Huene 1932
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available