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Lazarussuchus inexpectatus

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Lazarussuchus inexpectatus was named by Hecht (1992). Its type specimen is Claude Bernard University no Re 437, coll. Gennevaux 92813, a skeleton (almost complete postcranial skeleton and partial skull), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Armissam quarry, near Narbonne, which is in an Oligocene/Miocene terrestrial limestone in France. It is the type species of Lazarussuchus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1992Lazarussuchus inexpectatus Hecht p. 117
2013Lazarussuchus inexpectatus Matsumoto et al.

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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()
—Eosuchia()
—Neodiapsida
—SauriaGauthier 1984
—Choristodera()
genusLazarussuchus
speciesinexpectatus

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
ReferenceDiagnosis
M. K. Hecht 1992Same as for genus