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Teratosaurus suevicus

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Teratosaurus suevicus was named by Meyer (1861). Its type specimen is BMNH 38646, a maxilla, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Heslach quarries, Stuttgart, "Heslacher Wand", which is in a Norian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone in the Löwenstein Formation of Germany. It is the type species of Teratosaurus.

It was recombined as Zanclodon suevicus by Lydekker (1888), Fraas (1896), Fraas (1900) and Nopcsa (1901); it was misspelled as Zanclodon suecicus by Spangenberg (1898), Huene (1905), Huene (1908), Huene (1914), Huene (1914), Huene (1915), Van Hoepen (1920), Schmidt (1938), Kuhn (1939), Young (1941), Walker (1964), Charig (1967), Steel (1970), Swinton (1970), Kuhn (1971), McIntosh (1981), Welles (1984), Galton (1985), Benton (1986), Parrish (1993) and Brusatte et al. (2009).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1861Teratosaurus suevicus Meyer p. 172
1869Teratosaurus suevicus Dawkins p. 314
1870Teratosaurus suevicus Cope p. 90
1888Zanclodon suevicus Lydekker p. 172
1896Zanclodon suevicus Fraas p. 18
1898Zanclodon suecicus Spangenberg p. 409
1900Zanclodon suevicus Fraas p. 512
1901Zanclodon suevicus Nopcsa p. 198
1905Teratosaurus suevicus Huene p. 348
1908Teratosaurus suevicus Huene p. 155
1914Teratosaurus suevicus Huene p. 14
1915Teratosaurus suevicus Huene p. 2
1920Teratosaurus suevicus Van Hoepen p. 118
1938Teratosaurus suevicus Schmidt p. 71
1939Teratosaurus suevicus Kuhn p. 58
1941Teratosaurus suviecus Young p. 50
1964Teratosaurus suevicus Walker p. 106
1967Teratosaurus suevicus Charig p. 714
1970Teratosaurus suevicus Steel p. 26
1970Teratosaurus suevicus Swinton p. 138
1971Teratosaurus suevicus Kuhn p. 16
1981Teratosaurus suevicus McIntosh p. 7
1984Teratosaurus suevicus Welles p. 176
1985Teratosaurus suevicus Galton
1986Teratosaurus suevicus Benton p. 293
1993Teratosaurus suevicus Parrish p. 302
2009Teratosaurus suevicus Brusatte et al. p. 222

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
RankNameAuthor
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
—Pseudosuchia(Zittel 1890)
—SuchiaKrebs 1974
—Paracrocodylomorpha
—Loricata(Merrem 1820)
—Rauisuchidae(Huene 1942)
genusTeratosaurus
speciessuevicus

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.

†Teratosaurus suevicus Meyer 1861
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Diet: carnivoresubo
Created: 2009-01-03 20:38:45
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:38:45
Source: subo = suborder, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Benton 1983, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Norian or 228.00000 to 208.50000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Norian228.0 - 208.5Germany (Baden-Wurttemberg) Teratosaurus suevicus (type locality: 47785)