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Aristosuchus
Taxonomy
Aristosuchus was named by Seeley (1887). Its type is Poikilopleuron pusillus.
It was synonymized subjectively with Coelurus by Nopcsa (1901) and von Zittel (1911); it was synonymized subjectively with Calamospondylus by Blows (1998).
It was assigned to Dinosauria by Seeley (1887); to Megalosauridae by Lydekker (1888); to Compsognathinae by Nopcsa (1928); to Coelurosauria by Huene (1926) and Kuhn (1939); to Theropoda by Welles (1984); to Coeluridae by Lydekker (1889), Zittel (1890), Lydekker (1891), Marsh (1895), Van Den Broeck (1900), Williston (1905), Huene (1909), Huene (1914), Huene (1914), Huene (1920), Huene (1923), Huene (1926), Swinton (1936), Romer (1956), Romer (1966), Steel (1970), Molnar (1980), Jurcsák (1982) and Carroll (1988); to Coelurosauridae by Grigorescu (1992); and to Compsognathidae by Tatarinov (1964), Naish (1999), Naish et al. (2001), Naish (2002), Ruiz-Omeñaca and Canudo (2003), Peyer (2006), Naish and Martill (2007) and Hu et al. (2016).
It was synonymized subjectively with Coelurus by Nopcsa (1901) and von Zittel (1911); it was synonymized subjectively with Calamospondylus by Blows (1998).
It was assigned to Dinosauria by Seeley (1887); to Megalosauridae by Lydekker (1888); to Compsognathinae by Nopcsa (1928); to Coelurosauria by Huene (1926) and Kuhn (1939); to Theropoda by Welles (1984); to Coeluridae by Lydekker (1889), Zittel (1890), Lydekker (1891), Marsh (1895), Van Den Broeck (1900), Williston (1905), Huene (1909), Huene (1914), Huene (1914), Huene (1920), Huene (1923), Huene (1926), Swinton (1936), Romer (1956), Romer (1966), Steel (1970), Molnar (1980), Jurcsák (1982) and Carroll (1988); to Coelurosauridae by Grigorescu (1992); and to Compsognathidae by Tatarinov (1964), Naish (1999), Naish et al. (2001), Naish (2002), Ruiz-Omeñaca and Canudo (2003), Peyer (2006), Naish and Martill (2007) and Hu et al. (2016).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1887 | Aristosuchus Seeley p. 222 |
| 1888 | Aristosuchus Lydekker p. 157 |
| 1889 | Aristosuchus Lydekker p. 121 |
| 1890 | Aristosuchus Zittel p. 732 |
| 1891 | Aristosuchus Lydekker pp. 42-43 |
| 1895 | Aristosuchus Marsh |
| 1900 | Aristosuchus Van Den Broeck p. 83 |
| 1905 | Aristosuchus Williston p. 345 |
| 1909 | Aristosuchus Huene p. 13 |
| 1914 | Aristosuchus Huene p. 34 |
| 1920 | Aristosuchus Huene p. 162 |
| 1923 | Aristosuchus Huene p. 455 |
| 1926 | Aristosuchus Huene p. 87 |
| 1928 | Aristosuchus Nopcsa p. 183 |
| 1936 | Aristosuchus Swinton p. 206 |
| 1939 | Aristosuchus Kuhn p. 44 |
| 1956 | Aristosuchus Romer p. 612 |
| 1964 | Aristosuchus Tatarinov p. 533 |
| 1966 | Aristosuchus Romer p. 369 |
| 1970 | Aristosuchus Steel p. 13 |
| 1980 | Aristosuchus Molnar p. 137 |
| 1982 | Aristosuchus Jurcsák p. 179 |
| 1984 | Aristosuchus Welles p. 177 |
| 1988 | Aristosuchus Carroll |
| 1992 | Aristosuchus Grigorescu p. 147 |
| 1999 | Aristosuchus Naish p. 371 |
| 2001 | Aristosuchus Naish et al. p. 284 |
| 2002 | Aristosuchus Naish p. 157 |
| 2003 | Aristosuchus Ruiz-Omeñaca and Canudo p. 297 |
| 2006 | Aristosuchus Peyer p. 880 |
| 2007 | Aristosuchus Naish and Martill p. 504 |
| 2016 | Aristosuchus Hu et al. p. 191 |
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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