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Thoracosaurinae (disused)

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Thoracosauridae was named by Cope (1871). Its type is Thoracosaurus.

It was synonymized subjectively with Tomistominae by Kuhn (1966); it was reranked as the subfamily Thoracosaurinae by Nopcsa (1928), Carpenter (1983), Bryant (1989), Storrs and Efimov (2000) and Myrick (2001).

It was assigned to Procoelia by Cope (1871) and Cope (1875); to Crocodilidae by Nopcsa (1928); to Gavialiformes by Hay (1930); to Eusuchia by Domning and Clark (1993); and to Crocodylidae by Carpenter (1983), Bryant (1989), Storrs and Efimov (2000) and Myrick (2001).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1871Thoracosauridae Cope p. 235
1875Thoracosauridae Cope p. 14
1928Thoracosaurinae Nopcsa p. 187
1930Thoracosauridae Hay p. 149
1983Thoracosaurinae Carpenter
1989Thoracosaurinae Bryant p. 57
1993Thoracosauridae Domning and Clark p. 413
2000Thoracosaurinae Storrs and Efimov p. 415
2001Thoracosaurinae Myrick p. 223

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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
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
RankNameAuthor
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
—Pseudosuchia(Zittel 1890)
—SuchiaKrebs 1974
—Paracrocodylomorpha
—Loricata(Merrem 1820)
—Crocodylomorpha()
—Solidocrania
suborderCrocodyliformes
—MesoeucrocodyliaWhetstone and Whybrow 1983
—NeosuchiaClark 1988
suborderEusuchiaHuxley 1875
—Crocodylia(Owen 1842)
—LongirostresCuvier
—Crocodyloidea(Deraniyagala 1939)
—Crocodylidae(Cuvier 1807)
subfamilyThoracosaurinae()
subfamilyThoracosaurinae()

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.

Subfm. †Thoracosaurinae Cope 1871
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available