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Viatkosuchus sumini

Therocephalia - Whaitsiidae

Taxonomy
Viatkosuchus sumini was named by Tatarinov (1995). Its type specimen is PIN 2212/13, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Kotelnich, Vjatka River ("Sarmin" series), PIN 2212, which is in a Severodvinian terrestrial claystone/sandstone in the Urpalov Formation of the Russian Federation.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1995Viatkosuchus sumini Tatarinov
2000Viatkosuchus sumini Battail and Surkov
2008Viatkosuchus sumini Tatarinov
2011Viatkosuchus sumini Ivakhnenko
2017Viatkosuchus sumini Huttenlocker and Smith

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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()
orderTherocephalia
—EutherocephaliaHopson and Barghusen 1986
superfamilyWhaitsioideaHaughton 1918
familyWhaitsiidaeHaughton 1918
genusViatkosuchusTatarinov 1995
speciessuminiTatarinov 1995

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.

†Viatkosuchus sumini Tatarinov 1995
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Diet: carnivoreo
Created: 2009-01-03 20:34:57
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:34:57
Source: o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Benton 1983, Carroll 1988

Age range: Early/Lower Severodvinian or 264.28000 to 259.51000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Severodvinian264.28 - 259.51Russian Federation (Kirov) Viatkosuchus sumini (type locality: 28854)