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Proterosuchus alexanderi

Reptilia - Proterosuchidae

Taxonomy
Chasmatosaurus alexanderi was named by Hoffman (1965). Its type specimen is NM 1484/C. 3016, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Zeekoeigat, Venterstad, which is in an Induan/Olenekian terrestrial horizon in South Africa.

It was synonymized subjectively with Chasmatosaurus vanhoepeni by Cruickshank (1972) and Charig and Sues (1976); it was synonymized subjectively with Proterosuchus fergusi by Welman (1998) and Ezcurra et al. (2013); it was recombined as Proterosuchus alexanderi by Ezcurra and Butler (2015) and Ezcurra (2016).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1965Chasmatosaurus alexanderi Hoffman
2015Proterosuchus alexanderi Ezcurra and Butler
2016Proterosuchus alexanderi 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
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
familyProterosuchidaeBroom 1906
genusProterosuchus
speciesalexanderi()

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.

†Proterosuchus alexanderi Hoffman 1965
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Diet: carnivoreg
Created: 2009-01-03 20:50:13
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:50:13
Source: g = genus, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Benton 1983, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Induan to the top of the Olenekian or 252.17000 to 247.20000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Induan - Olenekian252.17 - 247.2South Africa (Eastern Cape) Chasmatosaurus alexanderi (type locality: 105610)