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Sunosuchus
Taxonomy
Sunosuchus was named by Young (1948) [Sepkoski's age data: J u].
It was assigned to Mesosuchia by Young (1948); to Goniophididae by Carroll (1988); to Crocodilia by Sepkoski (2002); to Neosuchia by Sereno et al. (2003) and Larsson and Sues (2007); to Goniopholidae by Schellhorn et al. (2009), Martin and Buffetaut (2012) and Pritchard et al. (2013); and to Goniopholididae by Buffetaut and Ingavat (1980), Buffetaut and Ingavat (1984), Wu et al. (1996), Storrs and Efimov (2000), Averianov (2001), Tykoski et al. (2002), Maisch et al. (2003), Lauprasert et al. (2007), Wings et al. (2010), Andrade et al. (2011), Bronzati et al. (2012) and Puértolas-Pascual et al. (2015).
It was assigned to Mesosuchia by Young (1948); to Goniophididae by Carroll (1988); to Crocodilia by Sepkoski (2002); to Neosuchia by Sereno et al. (2003) and Larsson and Sues (2007); to Goniopholidae by Schellhorn et al. (2009), Martin and Buffetaut (2012) and Pritchard et al. (2013); and to Goniopholididae by Buffetaut and Ingavat (1980), Buffetaut and Ingavat (1984), Wu et al. (1996), Storrs and Efimov (2000), Averianov (2001), Tykoski et al. (2002), Maisch et al. (2003), Lauprasert et al. (2007), Wings et al. (2010), Andrade et al. (2011), Bronzati et al. (2012) and Puértolas-Pascual et al. (2015).
Species
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1948 | Sunosuchus Young p. 258 |
| 1980 | Sunosuchus Buffetaut and Ingavat |
| 1984 | Sunosuchus Buffetaut and Ingavat |
| 1988 | Sunosuchus Carroll |
| 1988 | Sunosuchus shartegensis Efimov |
| 1996 | Sunosuchus Wu et al. p. 608 |
| 2000 | Sunosuchus Storrs and Efimov p. 409 |
| 2000 | Sunosuchus shartegensis Storrs and Efimov p. 409 |
| 2001 | Sunosuchus Averianov p. 776 |
| 2002 | Sunosuchus Sepkoski |
| 2002 | Sunosuchus Tykoski et al. |
| 2003 | Sunosuchus Maisch et al. |
| 2003 | Sunosuchus Sereno et al. |
| 2007 | Sunosuchus Larsson and Sues |
| 2007 | Sunosuchus Lauprasert et al. p. 202 |
| 2009 | Sunosuchus Schellhorn et al. |
| 2009 | Sunosuchus shartegensis Schellhorn et al. |
| 2010 | Sunosuchus Wings et al. |
| 2011 | Sunosuchus Andrade et al. |
| 2012 | Sunosuchus Bronzati et al. |
| 2012 | Sunosuchus Martin and Buffetaut |
| 2013 | Sunosuchus Pritchard et al. |
| 2015 | Sunosuchus Puértolas-Pascual et al. |
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G. †Sunosuchus Young 1948
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†Sunosuchus junggarensis Wu et al. 1996
†Sunosuchus miaoi Young 1948
†Sunosuchus shunanensis Fu et al. 2005
Invalid names: Sunosuchus shartegensis Efimov 1988 [nomen dubium]
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| E. Buffetaut and R. Ingavat 1984 | A long-snouted, specialist goniopholid, but in some ways a morphological intermediate between Goniopholididae and Pholidosuchidae |