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Rauisuchus
Taxonomy
Rauisuchus was named by Huene (1942). Its type is Rauisuchus tiradentes. It is the type genus of Rauisuchidae, Rauisuchinae. It was considered monophyletic by Nesbitt (2011).
It was assigned to Rauisuchinae by Huene (1942); to Rauisuchidae by Kuhn (1966), Carroll (1988), Parrish (1993), Long and Murry (1995); and to Rauisuchidae by Nesbitt (2011), Lautenschlager and Rauhut (2015).
It was assigned to Rauisuchinae by Huene (1942); to Rauisuchidae by Kuhn (1966), Carroll (1988), Parrish (1993), Long and Murry (1995); and to Rauisuchidae by Nesbitt (2011), Lautenschlager and Rauhut (2015).
Species
R. tiradentes (type species)
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1942 | Rauisuchus Huene p. 198 |
| 1966 | Rauisuchus Kuhn p. 74 |
| 1988 | Rauisuchus Carroll |
| 1993 | Rauisuchus Parrish p. 290 fig. 1 |
| 1995 | Rauisuchus Long and Murry p. 119 |
| 2011 | Rauisuchus Nesbitt fig. 51 |
| 2015 | Rauisuchus Lautenschlager and Rauhut p. 58 |
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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.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: g = genus, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Benton 1983 | |||||