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Proterochampsa

Reptilia - Proterochampsidae

Taxonomy

Proterochampsa was named by Reig (1959). It was considered monophyletic by Nesbitt (2011).

It was assigned to Protosuchia by Charig (1967); to Proterochampsia by Nesbitt (2011) and Dilkes and Arcucci (2012); and to Proterochampsidae by Cruickshank (1978), Carroll (1988), Parrish (1993), Trotteyn et al. (2013), Ezcurra et al. (2015) and Ezcurra (2016).

Species

P. barrionuevoi, P. nodosa

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1959	Proterochampsa Reig
1967	Proterochampsa Charig p. 710
1978	Proterochampsa Cruickshank
1988	Proterochampsa Carroll
1993	Proterochampsa Parrish p. 289
2011	Proterochampsa Nesbitt p. 191 fig. 51
2012	Proterochampsa Dilkes and Arcucci
2013	Proterochampsa Trotteyn et al.
2015	Proterochampsa Ezcurra et al.
2016	Proterochampsa 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
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967

Rank	Name	Author
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
subclass	Eureptilia	()
—	Romeriida
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Proterochampsia	Kischlat 2000
family	Proterochampsidae
genus	Proterochampsa

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.

G. †Proterochampsa Reig 1959

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†Proterochampsa barrionuevoi Reig 1959

†Proterochampsa nodosa Barberena 1982

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: Carnian or 237.00000 to 228.00000 Ma

Collections (4 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Carnian	237.0 - 228.0	Argentina (San Juan)	P. sp. (52747)
Carnian - Norian	237.0 - 208.5	Argentina (San Juan)	P. barrionuevoi (92315 92316)
Carnian - Norian	237.0 - 208.5	Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul)	P. nodosa (175572)