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Thoracosaurus macrorhynchus

Reptilia - Gavialidae

Taxonomy
Crocodilus macrorhynchus was named by de Blainville (1855). Its type specimen is MNHN, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is SW-Seite des St. Pietersberges, Horizont Mc [Maastrichter Tuffkreide], which is in a Maastrichtian marine chalk in the Maastrichter Tuffkreide Formation of the Netherlands.

It was recombined as Gavialis macrorhynchus by Gervais (1859); it was synonymized subjectively with Thoracosaurus isorhynchus by Swinton (1938); it was recombined as Thoracosaurus macrorhynchus by Leidy (1865), Troxell (1925), Perrier (1928), Brochu (2004) and Puértolas et al. (2011).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1835Crocodilus macrorhynchus de Blainville
1855Crocodilus macrorhynchus de Blainville
1859Gavialis macrorhynchus Gervais
1865Thoracosaurus macrorhynchus Leidy
1924Thoracosaurus scanicus Troedsson
1925Thoracosaurus macrorhynchus Troxell
1925Thoracosaurus scanicus Troxell
1928Thoracosaurus macrorhynchus Perrier p. 3089
2004Thoracosaurus macrorhynchus Brochu p. 622
2011Thoracosaurus macrorhynchus Puértolas et al.

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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
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
RankNameAuthor
—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
suborderEusuchiaHuxley 1875
—Crocodylia(Owen 1842)
superfamilyGavialoideaBrochu 1997
familyGavialidaeAdams 1854
genusThoracosaurusLeidy 1852
speciesmacrorhynchus(de Blainville 1855)

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.

†Thoracosaurus macrorhynchus de Blainville 1855
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Invalid names: Thoracosaurus scanicus Troedsson 1924 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marineuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Diet: carnivoreuc
Created: 2009-01-03 20:38:59
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:38:59
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Bush and Bambach 2015, Benton 1983, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Maastrichtian to the top of the Danian or 70.60000 to 61.60000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Maastrichtian72.1 - 66.0France Thoracosaurus macrorhynchus (195628)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0Netherlands Thoracosaurus macrorhynchus (type locality: 90778)
Danian66.0 - 61.6Sweden Thoracosaurus scanicus (90576)