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Herrerasauridae (herrerasaurid)

Reptilia - Herrerasauridae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1973Herrerasauridae Benedetto
1977Herrerasauridae Galton p. 240
1978Herrerasauridae Bonaparte p. 323
1985Herrerasauridae Galton
1985Herrerasauridae Gauthier and Padian pp. 189-190 fig. 2
1986Herrerasauridae Battail p. 48
1986Herrerasauridae Gauthier p. 54 fig. 8
1987Herrerasauridae Brinkman and Sues
1988Herrerasauridae Carroll
1988Herrerasauridae Paul p. 248
1989Herrerasauridae Novas p. 677
1990Herrerasauridae Benton p. 19
1990Herrerasauridae Sues p. 147
1992Herrerasauridae Novas pp. 59-60 fig. 6
1993Herrerasauridae Novas p. 110
1993Herrerasauridae Sereno et al. p. 65
1994Herrerasauridae Novas p. 400
1995Herrerasauridae Long and Murry p. 172
1997Herrerasauridae Novas p. 305
1997Herrerasauridae Sereno p. 442 fig. 4
1998Herrerasauridae Sereno p. 64
1999Herrerasauridae Sereno p. 2138 fig. 2
2000Herrerasauridae Galton p. 415
2003Herrerasauridae Rauhut p. 131
2004Herrerasauridae Bittencourt and Kellner p. 39A
2004Herrerasauridae Langer p. 27
2005Herrerasauridae Yates p. 118 fig. 9
2006Herrerasauridae Ezcurra p. 657 fig. 3
2006Herrerasauridae Langer and Benton p. 348 fig. 15
2009Herrerasauridae Martínez and Alcober p. 11 fig. 10
2009Herrerasauridae Nesbitt et al. p. 1532
2011Herrerasauridae Bittencourt and Langer p. 35
2011Herrerasauridae Sues et al. p. 3462 fig. 3
2017Herrerasauridae Martinez and Apaldetti p. 502
2019Herrerasauridae Pacheco et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
RankNameAuthor
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauriformes
Dinosauria()
Theropoda()
familyHerrerasauridae
familyHerrerasauridae

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. †Herrerasauridae Benedetto 1973 [herrerasaurid]
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G. †Caseosaurus Hunt et al. 1998
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Caseosaurus crosbyensis Hunt et al. 1998
G. †Gnathovorax Pacheco et al. 2019
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Gnathovorax cabreirai Pacheco et al. 2019
G. †Herrerasaurus Reig 1963
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Invalid names: Frenguellisaurus ischigualastensis Novas 1986 [synonym], Ischisaurus cattoi Reig 1963 [synonym]
Invalid names: Frenguellisaurus Novas 1986 [synonym], Ischisaurus Reig 1963 [synonym]
G. †Sanjuansaurus Alcober and Martínez 2010
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Sanjuansaurus gordilloi Alcober and Martínez 2010
G. †Staurikosaurus Colbert 1970
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Staurikosaurus pricei Colbert 1970
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Invalid names: Teyuwasu barberenai Kischlat 1999 [synonym]
Invalid names: Teyuwasu Kischlat 1999 [synonym]
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
J. L. Benedetto 1973Saurischians of carnivorous habits, moderate size and bipedal posture. Presacral
vertebrae tall, with anteroposteriorly short neural spines; ilium shorter than in Prosauropoda, tall, with anterior spine short and posterior spine truncated or rounded. Acetabular cavity strongly excavated and supraacetabular crest prominent; acetabulum with incipient aperture. Pubis proportionally long, with development of a distal “foot”, expanded sagittally and laterally compressed. Ischium much shorter than the pubis, with slender distal elongation, without expansion. Sacrum with three vertebrae. Femur sigmoid, slender, with the fourth trochanter situated above the midshaft. Slender tibia, with little torsion between its ends, little expanded distally and with descending posterior process. Astragalus and calcaneum of prosauropod type, the former strongly connected to the tibia. Pes with elongate metatarsals, symmetrical around digit III; metatarsals I and V narrower than the others, but longer and of approximately the same length; elongate phalanges. Forelimb with tendency toward reduction.