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Prolacertiformes ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	92216	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=92216

Rank

unranked clade (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Eosuchia : Prolacertiformes

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
order	Prolacertiformes

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Prolacertiformes	infraorder	belongs to Lacertilia	stated without evidence	Seiffert, 1975
Prolacertiformes	suborder	belongs to Eosuchia	stated without evidence	Chatterjee, 1980
Prolacertiformes	order	belongs to Archosauromorpha	stated with evidence	Benton, 1985
Prolacertiformes	order	subjective synonym of Protorosauria	stated with evidence	Chatterjee, 1986
Prolacertiformes	order	belongs to Archosauromorpha	stated without evidence	Benton, 1990
Prolacertiformes	unranked clade	belongs to Archosauromorpha	stated with evidence	Senter, 2004

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

252 - 247 Ma
Phanerozoic

Last Recorded Appearance

228 - 209 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Diapsida)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

M. J. Benton. 1985. Classification and phylogeny of the diapsid reptiles. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 84(2):97-164

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Podopterygidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	242 Ma Middle Triassic	242 Ma Middle Triassic
Cosesaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	242 Ma Middle Triassic	242 Ma Middle Triassic
Rhombopholis ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	3	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1945	Prolacertiformes Camp
1975	Prolacertiformes Seiffert p. 9
1980	Prolacertiformes Chatterjee p. 196
1985	Prolacertiformes Benton p. 154
1990	Prolacertiformes Benton p. 13
1997	Prolacertiformes Muscio
2004	Prolacertiformes Senter p. 260

References

Benton M. J. (1985) Classification and phylogeny of the diapsid reptiles, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 84 2, 97-164

Seiffert J. (1975) Upper Jurassic lizards from central Portugal, Contribuição para o conhecimento da Fauna do Kimerridgiano da Mina de Lignito Guimarota (Leiria, Portugal). Serviços Geológicos de Portugal, Memória (Nova Série) 22, 7-85

Chatterjee S. (1980) Malerisaurus, A New Eosuchian Reptile from the Late Triassic of India, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 291, 163-200

Benton M. J. (1990) Origin and interrelationships of dinosaurs, The Dinosauria, D. B. Weishampel, P. Dodson, & H. Osmólska (editors), University of California Press, Berkeley, 11-30

Muscio G. (1997) Preliminary note on a specimen of Prolacertiformes (Reptilia) from the Norian (Late Triassic) of Preone (Udine, north-eastern Italy), Gortania - Atti del Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale 18, 33-40

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

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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