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Ticinosuchus ✝

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Ticinosuchus is an extinct genus of pseudosuchian archosaur from the Middle Triassic (Anisian - Ladinian) of Switzerland and Italy.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticinosuchus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4822299	https://www.gbif.org/species/4822299
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	38260	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=38260

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Rauisuchidae : Ticinosuchus

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Eosuchia : Ticinosuchus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

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
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
-	Pseudosuchia
-	Suchia	Krebs 1974
genus	Ticinosuchus	Krebs 1965

Scientific Name

Ticinosuchus Krebs, 1965

Name Published In

Schweiz, Palaeont. Abh. 81

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Ticinosuchus	genus	belongs to Rauisuchidae	stated with evidence	Krebs, 1965
Ticinosuchus	genus	belongs to Rauisuchidae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Ticinosuchus	genus	belongs to Pseudosuchia	stated without evidence	Gauthier et al., 1989
Ticinosuchus	genus	belongs to Prestosuchidae	stated without evidence	Parrish, 1993
Ticinosuchus	genus	belongs to Rauisuchia	stated with evidence	Lautenschlager and Desojo, 2011
Ticinosuchus	genus	belongs to Suchia	stated with evidence	Nesbitt, 2011

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

247 - 242 Ma
Triassic

Last Recorded Appearance

247 - 242 Ma
Triassic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Diapsida)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

carnivore (based on Pseudosuchia)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

B. Krebs. 1965. E. Kuhn-Schnyder und B. Peyer: Die Triasfauna der Tessiner Kalkalpen. XIX. Ticinosuchus ferox nov. gen. nov. sp. [E. Kuhn-Schnyder and B. Peyer: The Triassic fauna of the Ticino Limestone Alps. XIX. Ticinosuchus ferox nov. gen. nov. sp.]. Schweizerische Paläontologische Abhandlungen, Memoires suisses de Paleontologie 81:1-140

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticinosuchus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Ticinosuchus ferox ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1965	Ticinosuchus Krebs p. 131
1966	Ticinosuchus Kuhn p. 74
1988	Ticinosuchus Carroll
1989	Ticinosuchus Gauthier et al. p. 348
1993	Ticinosuchus Parrish p. 290 fig. 1
2011	Ticinosuchus Lautenschlager and Desojo
2011	Ticinosuchus Nesbitt p. 24 fig. 51

References

Krebs B. (1965) E. Kuhn-Schnyder und B. Peyer: Die Triasfauna der Tessiner Kalkalpen. XIX. Ticinosuchus ferox nov. gen. nov. sp. [E. Kuhn-Schnyder and B. Peyer: The Triassic fauna of the Ticino Limestone Alps. XIX. Ticinosuchus ferox nov. gen. nov. sp.], Schweizerische Paläontologische Abhandlungen, Memoires suisses de Paleontologie 81, 1-140

Kuhn O. W. M. (1966) , Die Reptilien. System und Stammesgeschichte [The Reptiles. Systematics and Phylogeny.], 1-154

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

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

Parrish J. M. (1993) Phylogeny of the Crocodylotarsi, with reference to archosaurian and crurotarsan monophyly, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 13 3, 287-308

Lautenschlager S., Desojo J. B. (2011) Reassessment of the Middle Triassic rauisuchian archosaurs Ticinosuchus ferox and Stagonosuchus nyassicus, Palaeontologische Zeitschrift doi:10.1007/s12542-011-0105-1

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

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Schweiz, Palaeont. Abh. 81 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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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