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Ornithosuchidae
Taxonomy
Ornithosuchidae was named by Huene (1908). It was considered monophyletic by Nesbitt (2011).
It was reranked as the unranked clade Ornithosuchidae by Nesbitt (2011).
It was assigned to Thecodontia by Watson (1917); to Pseudosuchia by Huene (1922), Huene (1942), Kuhn (1946), Haughton and Brink (1954) and Romer (1956); to Ornithosuchoidea by Kuhn (1964); to Tyrannosauroidea by Walker (1964), Kuhn (1966) and Charig (1967); to Carnosauria by Romer (1966) and Steel (1970); to Pseudosuchida by Kuhn (1971); to Ornithosuchia by Gauthier and Padian (1985), Carroll (1988) and Benton (1990); to Crurotarsi by Sereno and Arcucci (1990), Sereno (1991) and Parrish (1993); to Ornithosuchia by Gauthier et al. (1989) and Long and Murry (1995); and to Pseudosuchia by Nesbitt (2011) and Patrick et al. (2019).
It was reranked as the unranked clade Ornithosuchidae by Nesbitt (2011).
It was assigned to Thecodontia by Watson (1917); to Pseudosuchia by Huene (1922), Huene (1942), Kuhn (1946), Haughton and Brink (1954) and Romer (1956); to Ornithosuchoidea by Kuhn (1964); to Tyrannosauroidea by Walker (1964), Kuhn (1966) and Charig (1967); to Carnosauria by Romer (1966) and Steel (1970); to Pseudosuchida by Kuhn (1971); to Ornithosuchia by Gauthier and Padian (1985), Carroll (1988) and Benton (1990); to Crurotarsi by Sereno and Arcucci (1990), Sereno (1991) and Parrish (1993); to Ornithosuchia by Gauthier et al. (1989) and Long and Murry (1995); and to Pseudosuchia by Nesbitt (2011) and Patrick et al. (2019).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1908 | Ornithosuchidae Huene |
| 1917 | Ornithosuchidae Watson p. 180 |
| 1922 | Ornithosuchidae Huene p. 22 |
| 1942 | Ornithosuchidae Huene p. 244 |
| 1946 | Ornithosuchidae Kuhn p. 63 |
| 1954 | Ornithosuchidae Haughton and Brink p. 4 |
| 1956 | Ornithosuchidae Romer p. 594 |
| 1964 | Ornithosuchidae Kuhn p. 320 |
| 1964 | Ornithosuchidae Walker p. 110 |
| 1966 | Ornithosuchidae Kuhn p. 94 |
| 1966 | Ornithosuchidae Romer p. 369 |
| 1967 | Ornithosuchidae Charig p. 714 |
| 1970 | Ornithosuchidae Steel p. 24 |
| 1971 | Ornithosuchidae Kuhn p. 13 |
| 1985 | Ornithosuchidae Gauthier and Padian pp. 187-189 fig. 1 |
| 1988 | Ornithosuchidae Carroll |
| 1989 | Ornithosuchidae Gauthier et al. p. 346 |
| 1990 | Ornithosuchidae Benton p. 13 |
| 1990 | Ornithosuchidae Sereno and Arcucci p. 39 fig. 7 |
| 1991 | Ornithosuchidae Sereno p. 27 |
| 1993 | Ornithosuchidae Parrish p. 290 fig. 1 |
| 1995 | Ornithosuchidae Long and Murry p. 64 |
| 2011 | Ornithosuchidae Nesbitt p. 194 fig. 51 |
| 2019 | Ornithosuchidae Patrick et al. |
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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.
Unr. †Ornithosuchidae Huene 1908
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| S. J. Nesbitt 2011 | The most inclusive clade containing Ornithosuchus longidens Huxley, 1877, but not Rutiodon carolinensis Emmons, 1856, Aetosaurus ferratus Fraas, 1877, Rauisuchus tiradentes Huene, 1942, Prestosuchus chiniquensis Huene, 1942, Crocodylus niloticus Laurenti, 1768, or Passer domesticus Linnaeus, 1758 |
Measurements
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| Source: subo = suborder, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Benton 1983 | |||||
Collections (6 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carnian | Argentina (La Rioja) | Venaticosuchus rusconii (26452) | |
| Carnian | United Kingdom (Wales) | Aenigmaspina pantyffynnonensis (27012) | |
| Carnian - Norian | United Kingdom (Scotland) | Ornithosuchus taylori (57948) Ornithosuchus woodwardi (89008) | |
| Carnian - Norian | Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul) | Dynamosuchus collisensis (98623) | |
| Norian | Argentina (La Rioja) | Riojasuchus tenuisceps (105691) |