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Erythrosuchidae ✝

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Erythrosuchidae (meaning "red crocodiles") are a family of large basal archosauriform carnivores that lived from the later Early Triassic (Olenekian) to the early Middle Triassic (Anisian).

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4817546	https://www.gbif.org/species/4817546
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	38225	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=38225

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Erythrosuchidae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Eosuchia : Erythrosuchidae

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
family	Erythrosuchidae	Watson 1917

Scientific Name

Erythrosuchidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Erythrosuchidae	family	belongs to Thecodontia	stated with evidence	Watson, 1917
Erythrosuchidae	family	belongs to Parasuchia	stated with evidence	Kuhn, 1946
Erythrosuchidae	family	belongs to Pseudosuchia	stated without evidence	Haughton and Brink, 1954
Erythrosuchidae	family	belongs to Proterosuchia	stated with evidence	Kuhn, 1964
Erythrosuchidae	family	subjective synonym of Proterosuchidae	stated with evidence	Kuhn, 1966
Erythrosuchidae	family	belongs to Proterosuchia	stated with evidence	Charig and Reig, 1970
Erythrosuchidae	family	belongs to Archosauria	stated with evidence	Benton, 1985
Erythrosuchidae	family	belongs to Proterosuchia	implied	Carroll, 1988
Erythrosuchidae	family	belongs to Archosauria	stated with evidence	Benton, 1990
Erythrosuchidae	family	belongs to Archosauriformes	stated without evidence	Sereno, 1991
Erythrosuchidae	family	belongs to Erythrosuchia	stated without evidence	Parrish, 1993
Erythrosuchidae	family	belongs to Archosauriformes	stated with evidence	Nesbitt, 2011

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

251 - 247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic

Last Recorded Appearance

242 - 237 Ma
Middle Triassic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Diapsida)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

D. M. S. Watson. 1917. A sketch classification of the Pre-Jurassic tetrapod vertebrates. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1917:167-186

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Chalishevia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	242 Ma Middle Triassic	242 Ma Middle Triassic
Erythrosuchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	6	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Fugusuchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Garjainia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	18	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Guchengosuchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Shansisuchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	20	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Uralosaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Vjushkovia ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1917	Erythrosuchidae Watson p. 179
1946	Erythrosuchidae Kuhn p. 64
1954	Erythrosuchidae Haughton and Brink p. 4
1964	Erythrosuchidae Kuhn p. 320
1970	Erythrosuchidae Charig and Reig p. 165
1972	Erythrosuchidae Cruickshank p. 116
1976	Erythrosuchidae Charig and Sues p. 28
1978	Erythrosuchidae Cruickshank

Year	Name and Author
1985	Erythrosuchidae Benton p. 154
1988	Erythrosuchidae Carroll
1990	Erythrosuchidae Benton p. 13
1991	Erythrosuchidae Sereno p. 39 fig. 26
1993	Erythrosuchidae Parrish pp. 290-291 fig. 1
2011	Erythrosuchidae Nesbitt
2016	Erythrosuchidae Ezcurra

References

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

Haughton S. H., Brink A. S. (1954) A bibliographical list of Reptilia from the Karroo Beds of South Africa, Palaeontologia Africana 2, 1-187

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

Cruickshank A. R. I. (1972) The proterosuchian thecodonts, Studies in Vertebrate Evolution, 89-119

Charig A. J., Sues H.-D. (1976) Suborder Proterosuchia Broom 1906b, Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie 13, 11-39

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

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

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

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

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

Ezcurra M. D. (2016) The phylogenetic relationships of basal archosauromorphs, with an emphasis on the systematics of proterosuchian archosauriforms, PeerJ 4, e1778

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - 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

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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