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Charactosuchus
Taxonomy
Charactosuchus was named by Langston (1965).
It was assigned to Thoracosauridae by Domning and Clark (1993); to Tomistominae by Piras et al. (2007); to Crocodylidae by Langston (1965), Carroll (1988) and Riff et al. (2010); and to Crocodyloidea by Cidade et al. (2019).
It was assigned to Thoracosauridae by Domning and Clark (1993); to Tomistominae by Piras et al. (2007); to Crocodylidae by Langston (1965), Carroll (1988) and Riff et al. (2010); and to Crocodyloidea by Cidade et al. (2019).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1965 | Charactosuchus Langston |
| 1988 | Charactosuchus Carroll |
| 1993 | Charactosuchus Domning and Clark p. 413 |
| 2007 | Charactosuchus Piras et al. |
| 2010 | Charactosuchus Riff et al. |
| 2019 | Charactosuchus Cidade et al. |
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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. †Charactosuchus Langston 1965
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†Charactosuchus fieldsi Langston 1965
†Charactosuchus kugleri von Berg 1969
†Charactosuchus sansoai Souza Filho 1991
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Bush and Bambach 2015, Benton 1983, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Collections (7 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Lutetian | Jamaica | C. kugleri (5241 144125) | |
| Laventan | Colombia (Huila) | C. fieldsi (134806) | |
| Laventan | Colombia | C. fieldsi (153818) | |
| Tortonian | Brazil (Acre) | C. mendesi, C. fieldsi, C. sansoai (55602) C. sp. (136717) | |
| Tortonian | Venezuela (Falcon) | C. mendesi (136777) |