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Proterosuchidae

Reptilia - Proterosuchidae

Taxonomy

Proterosuchidae was named by Broom (1906). It is not extant.

It was assigned to Pseudosuchia by Huene (1922) and Kuhn (1946); to Proterosuchia by Kuhn (1964); to Proterosuchoidea by Kuhn (1966); to Archosauromorpha by Benton (1985); to Archosauria by Benton (1990); to Proterosuchia by Charig (1967), Charig and Reig (1970), Cruickshank (1972), Charig and Sues (1976), Cruickshank (1978), Camp and Banks (1978), Thulborn (1979), Thulborn (1986), Carroll (1988) and Welman (1998); and to Archosauriformes by Gauthier et al. (1989), Nesbitt (2011) and Ezcurra (2016).

Subtaxa

Archosaurus, Blomosuchus, Proterosuchus (syn. Elaphrosuchus, Chasmatosaurus)

Synonyms

Vjushkoviidae was named by Huene (1960).

It was synonymized subjectively with Proterosuchidae by Kuhn (1966).

It was assigned to Proterosuchia by Kuhn (1964); and to Proterosuchia by Young (1973).
Chasmatosauridae was named by Haughton (1924). It is not extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Proterosuchidae by Kuhn (1966), Charig (1967) and Charig and Reig (1970).
Garjainiidae was named by Ochev (1958).

It was synonymized subjectively with Proterosuchidae by Kuhn (1966).

It was assigned to Proterosuchia by Kuhn (1964).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1906	Proterosuchidae Broom
1922	Proterosuchidae Huene p. 22
1924	Chasmatosauridae Haughton
1946	Proterosuchidae Kuhn p. 64
1958	Garjainiidae Ochev
1960	Vjushkoviidae Huene
1964	Garjainiidae Kuhn p. 320
1964	Proterosuchidae Kuhn p. 320
1964	Vjushkoviidae Kuhn p. 320
1966	Proterosuchidae Kuhn p. 71
1967	Proterosuchidae Charig p. 708
1970	Proterosuchidae Charig and Reig p. 165
1972	Proterosuchidae Cruickshank p. 116
1973	Vjushkoviidae Young p. 38
1976	Proterosuchidae Charig and Sues p. 16
1978	Proterosuchidae Camp and Banks
1978	Proterosuchidae Cruickshank
1979	Proterosuchidae Thulborn p. 332
1985	Proterosuchidae Benton p. 154
1986	Proterosuchidae Thulborn p. 123
1988	Proterosuchidae Carroll
1989	Proterosuchidae Gauthier et al. p. 345
1990	Proterosuchidae Benton p. 13
1998	Proterosuchidae Welman p. 340
2011	Proterosuchidae Nesbitt
2016	Proterosuchidae Ezcurra

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
subclass	Eureptilia	()
—	Romeriida
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
family	Proterosuchidae	Broom 1906
family	Proterosuchidae	Broom 1906

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.

Fm. †Proterosuchidae Broom 1906

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G. †Archosaurus Tatarinov 1960

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†Archosaurus rossicus Tatarinov 1960

G. †Blomosuchus Sennikov 1997

G. †Proterosuchus Broom 1903

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†Proterosuchus alexanderi Hoffman 1965

†Proterosuchus fergusi Broom 1903

Invalid names: Chasmatosaurus vanhoepeni Haughton 1924 [synonym], Elaphrosuchus rubidgei Broom 1946 [synonym]

†Proterosuchus goweri Ezcurra and Butler 2015

Invalid names: Chasmatosaurus Haughton 1924 [synonym], Elaphrosuchus Broom 1946 [synonym]

Invalid names: Chasmatosauridae Haughton 1924 [synonym], Garjainiidae Ochev 1958 [synonym], Vjushkoviidae Huene 1960 [synonym]

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: base of the Vyatkian to the top of the Anisian or 259.51000 to 242.00000 Ma

Collections (26 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Vyatkian	259.51 - 257.4	Russian Federation (Nizhnii Novgorod)	Archosaurus sp. (86356)
Vyatkian	259.51 - 257.4	Russian Federation (Vladimir)	Archosaurus rossicus (189402) Archosaurus sp., Archosaurus rossicus (86346)
Induan	252.17 - 251.2	China (Xinjiang)	Chasmatosaurus yuani (117524 143474)
Early/Lower Triassic	252.17 - 247.2	South Africa (Free State)	Chasmatosaurus vanhoepeni (117177 117179 117183) Proterosuchidae indet., Chasmatosaurus vanhoepeni (117178)
Early/Lower Triassic	252.17 - 247.2	South Africa (Eastern Cape)	Proterosuchus fergusi (117176 117184)
Early/Lower Triassic	252.17 - 247.2	South Africa (East Cape)	Proterosuchus fergusi (188978)
Induan - Olenekian	252.17 - 247.2	South Africa (Eastern Cape)	Chasmatosaurus alexanderi (105610) Proterosuchidae indet. (182579) Proterosuchidae indet., Proterosuchus fergusi, Elaphrosuchus rubidgei (85948) Proterosuchus fergusi (117185 182575 182576)
Induan - Olenekian	252.17 - 247.2	South Africa (Free State)	Chasmatosaurus vanhoepeni (88282) Proterosuchidae indet. (98602 182578) Proterosuchus fergusi (182577) Proterosuchus vanhoepeni (144326)
Induan - Smithian	252.17 - 247.2	India (West Bengal)	Chasmatosaurus sp. (117187)
Dienerian - Spathian	250.5 - 247.2	Australia (New South Wales)	Proterosuchidae indet. (117150)
Anisian	247.2 - 242.0	Canada (Nova Scotia)	Proterosuchidae indet. (227834)