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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	66478	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=66478

Rank

unranked clade (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Eosuchia : Suchia

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

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Suchia	unranked clade	belongs to Neoarchosauria	stated with evidence	Benton, 1985
Suchia	unranked clade	belongs to Crurotarsi	stated without evidence	Sereno and Arcucci, 1990
Suchia	unranked clade	belongs to Crocodylotarsi	stated without evidence	Parrish, 1993
Suchia	unranked clade	belongs to Crurotarsi	stated with evidence	Long and Murry, 1995
Suchia	unranked clade	belongs to Crocodylotarsi	stated without evidence	Karl, 2007
Suchia	unranked clade	belongs to Archosauria	stated without evidence	Gauthier et al., 2011
Suchia	unranked clade	belongs to Pseudosuchia	stated with evidence	Nesbitt, 2011

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

1,324

Extant Size (PBDB)

71 (5.4%)

First Recorded Appearance

252 - 247 Ma
Phanerozoic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Diapsida)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

carnivore (based on Pseudosuchia)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

P. C. Sereno and A. B. Arcucci. 1990. The monophyly of crurotarsal archosaurs and the origin of bird and crocodile ankle joints. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 180(1):21-52

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Crocodiliformes superorder	listed (PBDB)		28	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Ctenosauriscoidea ✝ superfamily	listed (PBDB)
Chatterjeeidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Gracilisuchidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	242 Ma Middle Triassic
Prestosuchidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	242 Ma Middle Triassic	242 Ma Middle Triassic
Shuvosauridae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		29	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Teratosauridae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Teratosaurid	1	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Basutodon ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Decuriasuchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	242 Ma Middle Triassic
Stagonosuchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Ticinosuchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Aetosauria unranked clade	listed (PBDB)		460	237 Ma Middle Triassic	0 Ma Extant
Paracrocodylomorpha unranked clade	listed (PBDB)		4,696	252 Ma Permian	0 Ma Extant
Rauisuchiformes ✝ unranked clade	listed (PBDB)		1	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1942	Rauisuchia Huene
1974	Suchia Krebs
1985	Suchia Benton p. 154
1985	Rauisuchia Galton
1985	Rauisuchia Gauthier and Padian pp. 187-189 fig. 1
1988	Rauisuchia Carroll
1990	Suchia Sereno and Arcucci p. 39 fig. 7
1990	Rauisuchia Sereno and Arcucci p. 41
1991	Rauisuchia Sereno p. 11
1991	Suchia Sereno p. 27
1993	Rauisuchia Parrish p. 290 fig. 1

Year	Name and Author
1993	Suchia Parrish p. 290 fig. 1
1995	Suchia Long and Murry p. 66
1995	Rauisuchia Long and Murry p. 117
2005	Rauisuchia Sulej p. 78
2007	Suchia Karl p. 59
2008	Suchia Laurito and Valerio p. 109
2011	Suchia Gauthier et al. p. 109
2011	Rauisuchia Lautenschlager and Desojo
2011	Suchia Nesbitt p. 195 fig. 51
2012	Rauisuchia Sennikov

References

Sereno P. C., Arcucci A. B. (1990) The monophyly of crurotarsal archosaurs and the origin of bird and crocodile ankle joints, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 180 1, 21-52

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

Galton P. M. (1985) The poposaurid thecodontian Teratosaurus suevicus v. Meyer, plus referred specimens mostly based on prosauropod dinosaurs, from the Middle Stubensandstein (Upper Triassic) of Nordwürttemberg, Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 116, 1-29

Gauthier J. A., Padian K. (1985) Phylogenetic, functional, and aerodynamic analyses of the origin of birds and their flight, In M. K. Hecht, J. H. Ostrom, G. Viohl, and P. Wellnhofer (eds.), The Beginnings of Birds: Proceedings of the International Archaeopteryx Conference, Eichstätt 1984. Freunde des Jura-Museums Eichstätt, Eichstätt, 185-197

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

Sereno P. C. (1991) Basal archosaurs: phylogenetic relationships and functional implications, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 2 11 4, suppl., 1-53

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

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

Sulej T. (2005) A new rauisuchian reptile (Diapsida: Archosauria) from the Late Triassic of Poland, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25 1, 78-86

Karl H.-V. (2007) The fossil reptiles (Reptilia: Chelonii, Crocodylia) from the marine early Oligocene of the Weisselster Basin (Central Germany: Saxonia), Studia Geologica Salamanticensia 43 1, 25-66

Laurito C. A., Valerio A. L. (2008) The first record of Gavialosuchus americanus Sellards (1915)† (Eusuchia: Crocodylidae, Tomistominae) for the Late Tertiary of Costa Rica and Central America, Revista Geológica de América Central 39, 107-115

Gauthier J. A., Nesbitt S. J., et al (2011) The bipedal stem crocodilian Poposaurus gracilis: inferring function in fossils and innovation in archosaur locomotion, Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 52 1, 107-126

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

Sennikov A. G. (2012) The first ctenosauriscid (Reptilia: Archosauromorpha) from the Lower Triassic of Eastern Europe, Paleontological Journal 46 5, 499-511

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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