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Prestosuchus
Taxonomy
Prestosuchus was named by Huene (1942). It was considered monophyletic by Nesbitt (2011).
It was assigned to Rauisuchinae by Huene (1942); to Crurotarsi by Sereno (1991); to Prestosuchidae by Parrish (1993); to Rauisuchidae by Kuhn (1966), Carroll (1988) and Long and Murry (1995); and to Loricata by Nesbitt (2011) and Roberto-Da-Silva et al. (2018).
It was assigned to Rauisuchinae by Huene (1942); to Crurotarsi by Sereno (1991); to Prestosuchidae by Parrish (1993); to Rauisuchidae by Kuhn (1966), Carroll (1988) and Long and Murry (1995); and to Loricata by Nesbitt (2011) and Roberto-Da-Silva et al. (2018).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1942 | Prestosuchus Huene p. 163 |
| 1966 | Prestosuchus Kuhn p. 74 |
| 1988 | Prestosuchus Carroll |
| 1991 | Prestosuchus Sereno p. 27 |
| 1993 | Prestosuchus Parrish p. 290 fig. 1 |
| 1995 | Prestosuchus Long and Murry p. 119 |
| 2011 | Prestosuchus Nesbitt fig. 51 |
| 2018 | Prestosuchus Roberto-Da-Silva et al. p. 3 |
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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.
G. †Prestosuchus Huene 1942
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†Prestosuchus chiniquensis Huene 1942
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Invalid names: Prestosuchus loricatus Huene 1942 [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, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Collections (9 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Triassic - Late/Upper Triassic | Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul) | P. chiniquensis (188977) | |
| Ladinian | Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul) | P. chiniquensis (99412 99413 99414 105826 105827) P. loricatus (72141) | |
| Carnian | Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul) | P. chiniquensis (234531) | |
| Late/Upper Triassic | Brazil (Rio Grande Do Sul) | P. chiniquensis (189345) |