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Nicrosaurus kapffi

Reptilia - Parasuchidae

Taxonomy
Belodon kapffi was named by Meyer (1860). Its type specimen is SMNS 4060, 4060a, uncat. no. 15, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Heslach quarries, Stuttgart, "Heslacher Wand", which is in a Norian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone in the Löwenstein Formation of Germany.

It was recombined as Lophoprosopus kapffi by Mehl (1915); it was recombined as Phytosaurus kapffi by Gregory (1962); it was recombined as Nicrosaurus kapffi by Kuhn (1971), Long and Murry (1995), Hungerbühler (1998), Hungerbühler and Hunt (2000) and Stocker and Butler (2013).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1860Belodon kapffi Meyer p. 556
1861Belodon kapffi Meyer
1898Belodon kapfii Spangenberg p. 408
1915Lophoprosopus kapffi Mehl p. 163
1928Belodon kapffi Perrier p. 3088
1934Belodon kapffi Swinton p. 29
1962Phytosaurus kapffi Gregory p. 4
1971Nicrosaurus kapffi Kuhn p. 14
1995Nicrosaurus kapffi Long and Murry p. 60
1998Nicrosaurus kapffi Hungerbühler p. 35
2000Nicrosaurus kapffi Hungerbühler and Hunt
2013Nicrosaurus kapffi 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
—Sauropsida
RankNameAuthor
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
—Pseudosuchia(Zittel 1890)
—Phytosauria(Jaeger 1828)
familyParasuchidaeLydekker 1885
subfamilyMystriosuchinaevon Huene 1915
—Leptosuchomorpha
—Mystriosuchini(Huene 1915)
genusNicrosaurusFraas 1866
specieskapffi(Meyer 1860)

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.

†Nicrosaurus kapffi Meyer 1860
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Diet: carnivoresubo
Created: 2009-01-03 20:38:18
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:38:18
Source: subo = suborder, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Benton 1983

Age range: Norian or 228.00000 to 208.50000 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Norian228.0 - 208.5Germany (Baden-Wurttemberg) Belodon kapffi (type locality: 47785) Nicrosaurus kapffi (138914)
Norian228.0 - 208.5Germany (Baden-Württemberg) Nicrosaurus kapffi (105834 106363 138915)