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Aetosaurinae ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	156408	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=156408

Rank

subfamily (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Eosuchia : Stagonolepididae : Aetosaurinae

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
-	Aetosauria
-	Stagonolepididae
subfamily	Aetosaurinae	(Baur 1887)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Aetosaurinae	subfamily	belongs to Stagonolepidae	stated with evidence	Kuhn, 1966

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

237 - 228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic

Last Recorded Appearance

209 - 201 Ma
Mesozoic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Diapsida)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

herbivore (based on Aetosauria)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

A. B. Heckert and S. G. Lucas. 2000. Taxonomy, phylogeny, biostratigraphy, biochronology, paleobiogeography, and evolution of the Late Triassic Aetosauria (Archosauria: Crurotarsi). Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie, Teil I 11-12:1539-1587

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Aetosaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	6	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	216 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Coahomasuchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	237 Ma Middle Triassic	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Stenomyti ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Typothoracisinae ✝ unranked clade	listed (PBDB)	126	237 Ma Middle Triassic	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1887	Aetosauridae Baur
1887	Aethosauridae Baur p. 102
1902	Aetosauridae Hay p. 511
1910	Aetosauridae Jaekel p. 340
1915	Aetosauridae Lull p. 98
1917	Aetosauridae Lull p. 110
1917	Aetosauridae Watson p. 180
1920	Desmatosuchidae Case p. 529
1922	Aetosauridae Huene p. 22
1922	Desmatosuchidae Huene p. 23
1942	Aetosauridae Huene p. 244
1946	Aetosauridae Kuhn p. 64

Year	Name and Author
1946	Desmatosuchidae Kuhn p. 64
1960	Argentinosuchus Casamiquela
1960	Argentinosuchus bonapartei Casamiquela p. 3 figs. 3-4
1960	Argentinosuchus Casamiquela p. 4 figs. 3-4
1964	Aetosauridae Kuhn p. 320
1966	Aetosaurinae Kuhn p. 76
1971	Aetosauridae Kuhn p. 12
1988	Argentinosuchus Carroll
2000	Aetosaurinae Heckert and Lucas
2007	Aetosaurinae Parker
2016	Aetosaurinae Parker

References

Heckert A. B., Lucas S. G. (2000) Taxonomy, phylogeny, biostratigraphy, biochronology, paleobiogeography, and evolution of the Late Triassic Aetosauria (Archosauria: Crurotarsi), Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie, Teil I 11-12, 1539-1587

Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868

Jaekel O. (1910) Über das System der Reptilien [On the system of reptiles], Zoologische Anzeiger 35, 324-341

Lull R. S. (1915) Triassic life of the Connecticut Valley, State of Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin 24, 1-285

Case E. C. (1920) Preliminary description of a new suborder of phytosaurian reptiles with a description of a new species of Phytosaurus, Journal of Geology 28 6, 524-535

Huene F. v. (1922) The Triassic reptilian order Thecodontia, The American Journal of Science, series 5 4, 22-26

Huene F. v. (1942) Lieferungen 3/4. Pseudosuchia, Saurischia, Rhynchosauridae und Schlussabschnitt [Parts 3/4. Pseudosuchia, Saurischia, Rhynchosauridae, and Conclusions], Die Fossilen Reptilien des Südamerikanischen Gondwanalandes. Ergebnisse der Sauriergrabungen in Südbrasilien 1928/29 [The Fossil Reptiles of South American Gondwanaland. Results of the Dinosaur Expeditions in southern Brazil 1928/29]. C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, München, 161-332

Kuhn O. (1946) Das System der fossilen und rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien [The system of fossil and recent amphibians and reptiles], Bericht der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bamberg 29, 49-67

Casamiquela R. M. (1960) Notica preliminar sobre dos nuevos estagonolepoideos Argentinos, Ameghiniana 2, 3-9

Kuhn O. (1964) Ungelöste Probleme der Stammesgeschichte der Amphibien und Reptilien [Unsolved problems of the phylogeny of amphibians and reptiles], Jahreshefte des Vereins für vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg 118/119, 293-325

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

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

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

Parker W. G. (2007) Reassessment of the Aetosaur "Desmatosuchus" chamaensis with a reanalysis of the phylogeny of the Aetosauria (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia), Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 5, 41-67

Parker W. G. (2016) Revised phylogenetic analysis of the Aetosauria (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia); assessing the effects of incongruent morphological character sets, PeerJ 4, e1583

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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