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Procerosuchus celer

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Procerosuchus celer was named by Huene (1942). It is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Sanga am Weg, Fundgruppe 37, which is in a Ladinian terrestrial horizon in the Santa Maria Formation of Brazil. It is the type species of Procerosuchus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1942Procerosuchus celer Huene p. 217 figs. Pl. 28:4-6, Pl. 29

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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
RankNameAuthor
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
—Pseudosuchia(Zittel 1890)
genusProcerosuchus
speciesceler

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.

†Procerosuchus celer Huene 1942
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available