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Platyognathus
Taxonomy
Platyognathus was named by Young (1944). It is the type genus of Platyognathidae.
It was assigned to Pseudosuchia by Young (1951); to Pseudosuchia by Young (1944), Charig (1967); to Pedeticosauridae by Walker (1970); to Platyognathidae by Simmons (1965), Carroll (1988); to Protosuchia by Wu and Sues (1996); and to Crocodyliformes by Luo and Wu (1994), Irmis et al. (2013).
It was assigned to Pseudosuchia by Young (1951); to Pseudosuchia by Young (1944), Charig (1967); to Pedeticosauridae by Walker (1970); to Platyognathidae by Simmons (1965), Carroll (1988); to Protosuchia by Wu and Sues (1996); and to Crocodyliformes by Luo and Wu (1994), Irmis et al. (2013).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1944 | Platyognathus Young p. 1 |
| 1951 | Platyognathus Young p. 25 |
| 1965 | Platyognathus Simmons p. 34 |
| 1967 | Platyognathus Charig p. 704 |
| 1970 | Platyognathus Walker p. 369 |
| 1988 | Platyognathus Carroll |
| 1994 | Platyognathus Luo and Wu p. 265 |
| 1996 | Platyognathus Wu and Sues |
| 2013 | Platyognathus Irmis et al. |
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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.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available