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Smilosuchus adamanensis

Reptilia - Parasuchidae

Taxonomy
Machaeroprosopus adamanensis was named by Camp (1930). Its type specimen is UCMP 26699, a skeleton (Skull with lower jaws, axial skeleton, girdles and dermal scutes), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is General Blue Forest Area (UCMP 7038), which is in a Norian terrestrial horizon in the Chinle Formation of Arizona.

It was recombined as Rutiodon adamanensis by Gregory (1962); it was recombined as Leptosuchus adamanensis by Long and Murry (1995) and Irmis (2005); it was recombined as Smilosuchus adamanensis by Stocker and Butler (2013) and Parker et al. (2013).

Synonyms
  • Machaeroprosopus zunii was named by Camp (1930). Its type specimen is UCMP 27036, a partial skeleton (Skull fragments with axial skeleton, parts of pelvis, fibula, portion of metapodial, and dermal scutes), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Blue Hills 1, UCMP V7307, V7308, which is in a Norian terrestrial horizon in the Chinle Formation of Arizona.

    It was recombined as Rutiodon zunii by Gregory (1962); it was synonymized subjectively with Leptosuchus adamanensis by Long and Murry (1995).
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1930Machaeroprosopus adamanensis Camp
1930Machaeroprosopus zunii Camp
1930Machaeroprosopus adamanensis Camp p. 36
1962Rutiodon adamanensis Gregory p. 20
1962Rutiodon zunii Gregory p. 20
1995Leptosuchus adamanensis Long and Murry
2005Leptosuchus adamanensis Irmis p. 72
2013Smilosuchus adamanensis Parker et al.
2013Smilosuchus adamanensis Stocker and Butler

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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)
—Phytosauria(Jaeger 1828)
familyParasuchidaeLydekker 1885
subfamilyMystriosuchinaevon Huene 1915
—Leptosuchomorpha
genusSmilosuchus
speciesadamanensis()

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Invalid names: Machaeroprosopus zunii Camp 1930 [synonym]
Diagnosis
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