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Protosuchidae
Taxonomy
Protosuchidae was named by Brown (1934).
It was synonymized subjectively with Notochampsidae by Kuhn (1966).
It was assigned to Protosuchia by Kuhn (1946) and Carroll (1988); to Crocodyliformes by Gauthier et al. (1989), Pol et al. (2004), Gasparini et al. (2006) and Buscalioni (2017); and to Crocodyliformes by Martínez et al. (2018).
It was synonymized subjectively with Notochampsidae by Kuhn (1966).
It was assigned to Protosuchia by Kuhn (1946) and Carroll (1988); to Crocodyliformes by Gauthier et al. (1989), Pol et al. (2004), Gasparini et al. (2006) and Buscalioni (2017); and to Crocodyliformes by Martínez et al. (2018).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1934 | Protosuchidae Brown p. 80 |
| 1946 | Protosuchidae Kuhn p. 64 |
| 1988 | Protosuchidae Carroll |
| 1989 | Protosuchidae Gauthier et al. p. 349 |
| 2004 | Protosuchidae Pol et al. p. 604 |
| 2006 | Protosuchidae Gasparini et al. p. 72 |
| 2017 | Protosuchidae Buscalioni |
| 2018 | Protosuchidae Martínez et al. |
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Fm. †Protosuchidae Brown 1934
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G. †Protosuchus Brown 1934
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†Protosuchus haughtoni Busbey III and Gow 1984
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Invalid names: Lesothosuchus charigi Whetstone and Whybrow 1983 [synonym]
†Protosuchus micmac Sues et al. 1996
†Protosuchus richardsoni Brown 1933
Invalid names: Archaeosuchus Brown 1933 [replaced], Lesothosuchus Whetstone and Whybrow 1983 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Benton 1983, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Collections (27 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Norian | Argentina (La Rioja) | Coloradisuchus abelini (200293) Hemiprotosuchus leali (105691) | |
| Rhaetian - Hettangian | USA (Arizona) | Archaeosuchus richardsoni (137231) Protosuchus richardsoni (137291 137295) Protosuchus sp. (46392) | |
| Early/Lower Hettangian | Canada (Nova Scotia) | Protosuchidae indet. (74206 74208 74209) Protosuchus sp. (74207 74211 74214) | |
| Late/Upper Hettangian | Poland (Swietokrzyskie) | Protosuchus sp. (28334) | |
| Hettangian - Sinemurian | South Africa (Free State) | Baroqueosuchus haughtoni (59363 98599) Baroqueosuchus sp. (232325) Protosuchus haughtoni (190130 194006) | |
| Hettangian - Sinemurian | Lesotho (Mohale's Hoek) | Lesothosuchus charigi (13359) | |
| Sinemurian | China (Yunnan) | Dianosuchus changchiawaensis (137128) | |
| Sinemurian - Pliensbachian | USA (Arizona) | Edentosuchus MCZ 8816 (137292) Edentosuchus undescribed species 1 (137287) Edentosuchus undescribed species 2 (137288) | |
| Early/Lower Tithonian | USA (Utah) | Hoplosuchus kayi (21852) | |
| Valanginian - Albian | China (Xinjiang) | Edentosuchus tienshanensis (49047 49817 116313) |