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Plagiosuchus pustuliferus
Taxonomy
Plagiosternum pustuliferum was named by Fraas (1896). Its type specimen is SMNS 55909, a set of postcrania (Partial interclavicle), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Gaildorf, which is in a Longobardian estuary/bay shale in the Erfurt Formation of Germany.
It was recombined as Plagiosuchus pustuliferus by Huene (1922), Kuhn (1971), Damiani et al. (2009), Schoch and Milner (2014).
It was recombined as Plagiosuchus pustuliferus by Huene (1922), Kuhn (1971), Damiani et al. (2009), Schoch and Milner (2014).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1896 | Plagiosternum pustuliferum Fraas p. 8 |
| 1922 | Plagiosuchus pustuliferus Huene |
| 1971 | Plagiosuchus pustuliferus Kuhn p. 8 |
| 2009 | Plagiosuchus pustuliferus Damiani et al. |
| 2014 | Plagiosuchus pustuliferus Schoch and Milner p. 105 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Plagiosuchus pustuliferus Fraas 1896
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| R. Damiani et al. 2009 | "The cranium of Plagiosuchus pustuliferus can be distinguished from all other plagiosaurids by a suite of autapomorphies, as follows: (1) orbits greatly expanded posteriorly, forming orbitotemporal fenestrae; (2) prefrontal, postfrontal and, possibly, postorbital absent; (3) maxillary tooth row short; (4) maxillary teeth tiny; (5) jugal massive, forming major part of the skull margin; (6) interpterygoid vacuities large, rectangular in outline; (7) subtemporal vacuities long and narrow; (8) palatal ramus of pterygoid long and narrow; (9) massively elongated post-glenoid area of mandible; (10) coronoid series reduced to posterior coronoid only; (11) angular contacts posterior coronoid labially, precluding a dentary–surangular contact; (12) dentary short but adductor fossa long (correlating with the short maxilla and long subtemporal vacuities, respectively)."
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Measurements
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| Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Uhen 2004, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Longobardian or 239.48000 to 237.00000 Ma
Collections (7 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Ladinian - Carnian | Germany (Thüringen) | Plagiosuchus pustuliferus (196845) | |
| Longobardian | Germany (Baden-Württemberg) | Plagiosternum pustuliferum (type locality: 106350) Plagiosuchus pustuliferus (101873 101875 106351 106352) | |
| Longobardian | Germany (Thuringia) | Plagiosternum pustuliferum (106353) |