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Proterosuchia (disused)
Taxonomy
Proterosuchia was named by Broom (1906). It is not extant.
It was reranked as the order Proterosuchia by Roxo (1937); it was reranked as the superfamily Proterosuchia by Kuhn (1964); it was synonymized subjectively with Proterosuchoidea by Kuhn (1966); it was corrected as Proterosuchida by Kuhn (1971).
It was assigned to Prodiapsida by Roxo (1937); to Pseudosuchia by Kuhn (1964); to Archosauria by Cooper (1981); and to Thecodontia by Charig (1967), Kuhn (1971), Cruickshank (1972), Charig and Sues (1976), Camp and Banks (1978), Thulborn (1979) and Carroll (1988).
It was reranked as the order Proterosuchia by Roxo (1937); it was reranked as the superfamily Proterosuchia by Kuhn (1964); it was synonymized subjectively with Proterosuchoidea by Kuhn (1966); it was corrected as Proterosuchida by Kuhn (1971).
It was assigned to Prodiapsida by Roxo (1937); to Pseudosuchia by Kuhn (1964); to Archosauria by Cooper (1981); and to Thecodontia by Charig (1967), Kuhn (1971), Cruickshank (1972), Charig and Sues (1976), Camp and Banks (1978), Thulborn (1979) and Carroll (1988).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1906 | Proterosuchia Broom |
| 1911 | Pelycosimia Huene p. 47 |
| 1922 | Pelycosimia Huene p. 22 |
| 1937 | Pelycosimia Roxo p. 44 |
| 1937 | Proterosuchia Roxo p. 44 |
| 1964 | Proterosuchia Kuhn p. 320 |
| 1967 | Proterosuchia Charig p. 708 |
| 1971 | Proterosuchida Kuhn p. 12 |
| 1972 | Proterosuchia Cruickshank p. 116 |
| 1976 | Proterosuchia Charig and Sues p. 11 |
| 1978 | Proterosuchia Camp and Banks p. 149 |
| 1979 | Proterosuchia Thulborn p. 332 |
| 1981 | Proterosuchia Cooper p. 694 |
| 1988 | Proterosuchia Carroll |
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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.
Subor. †Proterosuchia Broom 1906
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Invalid names: Pelycosimia Huene 1911 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: subo = suborder, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Benton 1983, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Induan - Olenekian | Russian Federation (Orenburg) | Proterosuchia indet. (37040) | |
| Spathian | Germany (Niedersachsen) | Pseudosuchia indet. (117152) |