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Protorosauridae
Taxonomy
Protorosauridae was named by Cope (1871). Its type is Protorosaurus.
It was assigned to Rhynchocephalia by Cope (1871) and Cope (1875); to Proganosauria by Zittel (1890); to Proterosauria by Boulenger (1893); to Macrocnemoidea by Kuhn (1946); to Prolacertiformes by Chatterjee (1980); to Prolacertiformes by Benton (1985) and Sennikov (1997); and to Protorosauria by Osborn (1903), Kuhn (1966), Chatterjee (1986), Carroll (1988) and Ezcurra et al. (2014).
It was assigned to Rhynchocephalia by Cope (1871) and Cope (1875); to Proganosauria by Zittel (1890); to Proterosauria by Boulenger (1893); to Macrocnemoidea by Kuhn (1946); to Prolacertiformes by Chatterjee (1980); to Prolacertiformes by Benton (1985) and Sennikov (1997); and to Protorosauria by Osborn (1903), Kuhn (1966), Chatterjee (1986), Carroll (1988) and Ezcurra et al. (2014).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1871 | Protorosauridae Cope |
| 1875 | Protorosauridae Cope p. 15 |
| 1890 | Protorosauridae Zittel p. 592 |
| 1893 | Protorosauridae Boulenger p. 209 |
| 1903 | Protorosauridae Osborn p. 467 |
| 1905 | Thecodontosaurus primus Huene p. 349 |
| 1908 | Thecodontosaurus primus Huene p. 217 fig. 92 |
| 1914 | Thecodontosaurus primus Huene p. 12 |
| 1938 | Thecodontosaurus primus Schmidt p. 126 |
| 1939 | Thecodontosaurus primus Kuhn p. 61 |
| 1942 | Thecodontosaurus primus Kuhn p. 19 |
| 1946 | Protorosauridae Kuhn p. 60 |
| 1966 | Protorosauridae Kuhn p. 40 |
| 1970 | Thecodontosaurus primus Swinton p. 35 |
| 1980 | Protorosauridae Chatterjee p. 197 |
| 1985 | Protorosauridae Benton p. 154 |
| 1986 | Protorosauridae Chatterjee p. 297 |
| 1988 | Protorosauridae Carroll |
| 1997 | Protorosauridae Sennikov |
| 2014 | Protorosauridae Ezcurra et al. |
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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.
Fm. †Protorosauridae Cope 1871
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G. †Microcnemus Huene 1940
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G. †Tridentinosaurus Dal Piaz 1931
Invalid names: Thecodontosaurus primus Huene 1905 [nomen dubium]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Renesto 2005 | |||||
Collections (12 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Asselian | France (Languedoc-Roussillon) | Aphelosaurus lutevensis (171350) | |
| Induan | Russian Federation (Orenburg) | Microcnemus sp. (37037) | |
| Induan | Russian Federation (Nizhegorod) | Microcnemus sp. (28396) | |
| Induan | Russian Federation (Nizhnii Novgorod) | Microcnemus sp. (94247) | |
| Induan | Poland (West Pomerania) | Microcnemus sp. (134299) | |
| Olenekian | Russian Federation (Vologda) | Microcnemus efremovi (93775) Microcnemus efremovi, Chasmatosuchus parvus (28479) | |
| Olenekian | Russian Federation (Samara) | Microcnemus sp. (195786) | |
| Anisian | Poland (Opolskie) | Thecodontosaurus primus (96435) | |
| Carnian - Norian | India (Telangana) | Malerisaurus robinsonae (106521) | |
| Norian | USA (Texas) | Malerisaurus sp. (218126 218146) |