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Poposauridae

Reptilia - Poposauridae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1923Poposauridae Nopcsa p. 126
1928Poposauridae Nopcsa p. 184
1934Poposauridae Huene p. 15
1937Poposauridae Roxo p. 65
1946Poposauridae Kuhn p. 66
1961Poposauridae Colbert
1966Poposauridae Kuhn p. 94
1966Poposauridae Romer p. 369
1970Poposauridae Steel p. 27
1977Poposauridae Galton p. 244
1978Poposauridae Anderson and Cruickshank p. 31
1985Poposauridae Galton
1986Poposauridae Parrish and Carpenter p. 152
1988Poposauridae Carroll
1991Poposauridae Sereno p. 11
1993Poposauridae Parrish p. 290 fig. 1
1995Poposauridae Long and Murry p. 142
1997Poposauridae Alcober and Parrish
2007Poposauridae Weinbaum and Hungerbühler p. 132

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
RankNameAuthor
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
Pseudosuchia(Zittel 1890)
SuchiaKrebs 1974
Paracrocodylomorpha
familyPoposauridae
familyPoposauridae

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. †Poposauridae Nopcsa 1923
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G. †Heptasuchus Dawley et al. 1979
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Heptasuchus clarki Dawley et al. 1979
G. †Lythrosuchus Long and Murry 1995
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
B. F. Nopcsa 1928definition as above