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Shansisuchus shansisuchus

Description

Shansisuchus (meaning "Shansi Province crocodile") is an extinct genus of archosauriform reptile belonging to the family Erythrosuchidae that lived during the Middle Triassic in what is now China. The first fossils of Shansisuchus were discovered from the Ermaying Formation of Shansi Province in 1964 by Chinese paleontologist Yang Zhongjian. Like other erythrosuchids, Shansisuchus was a large-bodied carnivore with a large, deep skull. Shansisuchus is unique among early archosauriforms in having a hole in its skull called a subnarial fenestra.


Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)8677882https://www.gbif.org/species/8677882
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)174032https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=174032
Rankspecies
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Erythrosuchidae : Shansisuchus : Shansisuchus shansisuchus
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Eosuchia : Erythrosuchidae : Shansisuchus : Shansisuchus shansisuchus
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SauropsidaHuxley 1864
classReptiliaLaurenti 1768
subclassEureptilia
-RomeriidaGauthier et al. 1988
-Diapsida
-Eosuchia
-NeodiapsidaBenton 1985
-SauriaGauthier 1984
-Archosauromorpha
-CrocopodaEzcurra 2016
-ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
familyErythrosuchidaeWatson 1917
genusShansisuchusYoung 1964
speciesShansisuchus shansisuchusYoung 1964
Generic NameShansisuchus
Scientific NameShansisuchus shansisuchus Young, 1964
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Shansisuchus shansisuchusspeciesbelongs to Shansisuchusstated with evidenceYoung, 1964
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)1
First Recorded Appearance247 - 242 Ma
Triassic
Last Recorded Appearance247 - 242 Ma
Triassic
Environmentterrestrial (based on Diapsida)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)C.-C. Young. 1964. The pseudosuchians in China. Palaeontologia Sinica 19:1-205
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shansisuchus_shansisuchus

Fossil Distribution

Obsolete Names

NameSourceTaxon RankTaxonomy
Fenhosuchus cristatus Young, 1964GBIFspeciesAnimalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Erythrosuchidae : Shansisuchus : Fenhosuchus cristatus

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1964Fenhosuchus cristatus Young
1964Shansisuchus shansisuchus Young
1964Fenhosuchus cristatus Young p. 158
1976Shansisuchus shansisuchus Charig and Sues p. 35
2013Shansisuchus shansisuchus Wang et al.
2016Shansisuchus shansisuchus Ezcurra

References

Young C.-C. (1964) The pseudosuchians in China, Palaeontologia Sinica 19, 1-205
Charig A. J., Sues H.-D. (1976) Suborder Proterosuchia Broom 1906b, Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie 13, 11-39
Wang R., Xu S., et al (2013) A new specimen of Shansisuchus shansisuchus Young, 1964 (Diapsida: Archosauriformes) from the Triassic of Shanxi, China, Acta Geologica Sinica 87 5, 1185-1197
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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