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Erythrosuchus africanus

Reptilia - Erythrosuchidae

Taxonomy
Erythrosuchus africanus was named by Broom (1905). Its type specimen is SAM 905, a partial skeleton (right scapula and coracoid, right humerus, radius, and ulna, right ilium, ischium, and pubis, partial left ilium, several vertebrae, and numerous ribs), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Oorlogsfontein, Aliwal North District, which is in an Anisian dry floodplain siliciclastic in the Burgersdorp Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Erythrosuchus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1905Erythrosuchus africanus Broom p. 336
1906Erythrosuchus africanus Broom p. 187 figs. Pl. IV
1911Erythrosuchus africanus Huene
1967Erythrosuchus africanus Charig p. 708
1976Erythrosuchus africanus Charig and Sues p. 30
2011Erythrosuchus africanus Nesbitt p. 17
2016Erythrosuchus africanus Ezcurra

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
familyErythrosuchidae
genusErythrosuchus
speciesafricanus

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
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Anisian or 247.20000 to 242.00000 Ma

Collections (6 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Anisian247.2 - 242.0South Africa (Free State) Erythrosuchus africanus (171026)
Anisian247.2 - 242.0South Africa (Eastern Cape) Erythrosuchus africanus (type locality: 90309 92312 101963 179589) Euskelesaurus browni (163814)