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Archosauriformes

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	57091	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=57091

Rank

unranked clade (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Eosuchia : Archosauriformes

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Archosauriformes	unranked clade	belongs to Archosauromorpha	stated without evidence	Gauthier et al., 1989
Archosauriformes	unranked clade	belongs to Archosauromorpha	stated with evidence	Long and Murry, 1995
Archosauriformes	unranked clade	belongs to Archosauromorpha	stated without evidence	Borsuk-Bialynicka and Evans, 2003
Archosauriformes	unranked clade	belongs to Archosauromorpha	stated with evidence	Senter, 2004
Archosauriformes	unranked clade	belongs to Archosauromorpha	implied	Irmis, 2005
Archosauriformes	unranked clade	belongs to Archosauromorpha	stated with evidence	Nesbitt, 2011
Archosauriformes	unranked clade	belongs to Crocopoda	stated with evidence	Ezcurra, 2016

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

11,598

Extant Size (PBDB)

3,130 (27%)

First Recorded Appearance

259 - 252 Ma
Permian

Environment

terrestrial (based on Diapsida)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

M. Borsuk-Bialynicka and S. E. Evans. 2003. A basal archosauriform from the Early Triassic of Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48(4):649-652

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Erythrosuchia ✝ order	listed (PBDB)
Erythrosuchidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	52	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	242 Ma Middle Triassic
Euparkeriidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Proterosuchidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	30	259 Ma Permian	252 Ma Permian
Antarctanax ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	252 Ma Permian	252 Ma Permian
Barberenasuchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	242 Ma Middle Triassic	242 Ma Middle Triassic
Chasmatosuchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	27	252 Ma Permian	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Collilongus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Crosbysaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	10	237 Ma Middle Triassic	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Cuyosuchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	237 Ma Middle Triassic	237 Ma Middle Triassic
Dyoplax ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	237 Ma Middle Triassic	237 Ma Middle Triassic
Fugusuchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Graoullyodon ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Kalisuchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	252 Ma Permian	252 Ma Permian
Litorosuchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	242 Ma Middle Triassic	242 Ma Middle Triassic
Lucianosaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Protecovasaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Sarmatosuchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Tecovasaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Triopticus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Uatchitodon ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	237 Ma Middle Triassic	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Vonhuenia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	252 Ma Permian	252 Ma Permian
Zanclodon ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	6	242 Ma Middle Triassic	237 Ma Middle Triassic
Crurotarsi unranked clade	listed (PBDB)	8	237 Ma Middle Triassic	0 Ma Extant
Eucrocopoda unranked clade	listed (PBDB)	36,413	252 Ma Permian	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1905	Plateosaurus ornatus Huene p. 348
1908	Plateosaurus ornatus Huene p. 247 fig. 98
1914	Plateosaurus ornatus Huene p. 15
1915	Plateosaurus ornatus Huene p. 13
1938	Plateosaurus ornatus Schmidt p. 125
1947	Typothorax punctulatus Rusconi
1964	Wangisuchus Young
1964	Wangisuchus tzeyii Young
1970	Plateosaurus ornatus Steel p. 56

Year	Name and Author
1971	Plateosaurus ornatus Kuhn p. 16
1986	Archosauriformes Gauthier
1989	Archosauriformes Gauthier et al. p. 345
1995	Archosauriformes Long and Murry
2003	Archosauriformes Borsuk-Bialynicka and Evans p. 649
2004	Archosauriformes Senter p. 260
2005	Archosauriformes Irmis p. 71
2011	Archosauriformes Nesbitt p. 190 fig. 51
2016	Archosauriformes Ezcurra

References

Borsuk-Bialynicka M., Evans S. E. (2003) A basal archosauriform from the Early Triassic of Poland, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48 4, 649-652

Huene F. v. (1905) Trias-Dinosaurier Europas [European Triassic dinosaurs], Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 57, 345-349

Huene F. v. (1908) Die Dinosaurier der Europäischen Triasformation mit berücksichtigung der Ausseuropäischen vorkommnisse [The dinosaurs of the European Triassic formations with consideration of occurrences outside Europe], Geologische und Palaeontologische Abhandlungen Suppl. 1 1, 1-419

Huene F. v. (1914) I: Animalia. Pars 4. Saurischia et Ornithischia triadica (“Dinosauria” triadica), 1-20

Young C.-C. (1964) The pseudosuchians in China, Palaeontologia Sinica 19, 1-205

Steel R. (1970) Part 14. Saurischia, Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie/Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1-87

Kuhn O. (1971) , Die Saurier der deutschen Trias [Reptiles of the German Triassic], 1-105

Gauthier J. A., Cannatella D., et al (1989) Tetrapod phylogeny, In B. Fernholm, K. Bremer, & H. Jörnvall (eds.), The Hierarchy of Life. Elsevier Science Publishers B. V., Amsterdam, 337-353

Long R. A., Murry P. A. (1995) Late Triassic (Carnian and Norian) tetrapods from the southwestern United States, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 4, 1-254

Senter P. (2004) Phylogeny of Drepanosauridae (Reptilia: Diapsida), Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 2 3, 257-268 doi:10.1017/S1477201904001427

Irmis R. B. (2005) The vertebrate fauna of the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation in northern Arizona, In S. J. Nesbitt, W. G. Parker, & R. B. Irmis (eds.), Guidebook to the Triassic Formations of the Colorado Plateau in Northern Arizona: Geology, Paleontology, and History. Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin 9, 63-88

Nesbitt S. J. (2011) The early evolution of archosaurs: relationships and the origin of major clades, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 353, 1-292

Ezcurra M. D. (2016) The phylogenetic relationships of basal archosauromorphs, with an emphasis on the systematics of proterosuchian archosauriforms, PeerJ 4, e1778

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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