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Desmatosuchus spurensis

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Desmatosuchus spurensis was named by Case (1920). Its type specimen is UMMP 7476, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is east bank of Blanco River, which is in a Carnian/Norian crevasse splay claystone/claystone in the Tecovas Formation of Texas. It is the type species of Desmatosuchus.

It was synonymized subjectively with Desmatosuchus haplocerus by Long and Murry (1995).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1920Desmatosuchus spurensis Case p. 529
1922Desmatosuchus spurensis Case p. 26 figs. 7-20; Pl. 5-10
1930Desmatosuchus spurensis Hay p. 140
2008Desmatosuchus spurensis Parker
2013Desmatosuchus spurensis Desojo et al.
2016Desmatosuchus spurensis Parker

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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
RankNameAuthor
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
—Pseudosuchia(Zittel 1890)
—SuchiaKrebs 1974
—Aetosauria(Lydekker 1889)
—Stagonolepididae(Lydekker 1887)
suborderDesmatosuchia
subfamilyDesmatosuchinae
—Desmatosuchini
genusDesmatosuchus
speciesspurensis

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available