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Hassiacosuchus haupti

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Hassiacosuchus haupti was named by Weitzel (1935) [Museum: ]. Its type specimen is Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Nr. 4415, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Grube Messel Pit (Museum Darmstadt Collection), which is in a MP 11 crater lake claystone in the Messel Formation of Germany.

It was recombined as Allognathosuchus haupti by Weitzel (1935) and Berg (1966).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1935Allognathosuchus haupti Weitzel
1935Hassiacosuchus haupti Weitzel pp. 42-43
1966Allognathosuchus haupti Berg
1999Hassiacosuchus haupti Brochu
2004Hassiacosuchus haupti Brochu
2011Hassiacosuchus haupti Puértolas et al.
2014Hassiacosuchus haupti Farke et al.

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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
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
RankNameAuthor
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
—Pseudosuchia(Zittel 1890)
—SuchiaKrebs 1974
—Paracrocodylomorpha
—Loricata(Merrem 1820)
—Crocodylomorpha()
—Solidocrania
suborderCrocodyliformes
—MesoeucrocodyliaWhetstone and Whybrow 1983
—NeosuchiaClark 1988
suborderEusuchiaHuxley 1875
—Crocodylia(Owen 1842)
—Alligatoroidea(Gray 1844)
—Globidonta
genusHassiacosuchus
specieshaupti

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.

†Hassiacosuchus haupti Weitzel 1935
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marineuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Diet: carnivoreuc
Created: 2009-01-03 20:38:59
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:38:59
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Benton 1983, Carroll 1988, Bush and Bambach 2015, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: MP 11 or 48.60000 to 40.40000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
MP 1148.6 - 40.4Germany (Hessen) Hassiacosuchus haupti (type locality: 120036)