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Noteosuchus colletti

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Eosuchus colletti was named by Watson (1912). Its type specimen is AMSA 3591, a partial skeleton (postcrania only), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Grassy Ridge, which is in an Induan terrestrial limestone in the Katberg Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Noteosuchus, Eosuchus.

It was recombined as Noteosuchus colletti by Broom (1925), Carroll (1976) and Ezcurra (2016).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1912Eosuchus colletti Watson p. 290
1925Noteosuchus colletti Broom
1976Noteosuchus colletti Carroll p. 39 fig. 1
2016Noteosuchus colletti Ezcurra

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—Rhynchosauria()
genusNoteosuchusBroom 1925
speciescolletti()

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.

†Noteosuchus colletti Watson 1912
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Diet: herbivoreo
Created: 2009-01-03 20:37:19
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:37:19
Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Benton 1983, Carroll 1988

Age range: Induan or 252.17000 to 251.20000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Induan252.17 - 251.2South Africa (Eastern Cape) Eosuchus colletti (type locality: 85942)