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Kansajsuchus

Osteichthyes - Paralligatoridae

Taxonomy

Kansajsuchus was named by Efimov (1975). Its type is Kansajsuchus extensus.

It was assigned to Goniopholidae by Storrs and Efimov (2000), Halliday et al. (2015); and to Paralligatoridae by Kuzmin et al. (2019).

Species

K. extensus (type species), Turanosuchus aralensis

Synonyms

Turanosuchus was named by Efimov (1988). Its type is Turanosuchus aralensis.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Halliday et al. (2015); it was synonymized subjectively with Kansajsuchus by Kuzmin et al. (2019).

It was assigned to Goniopholidae by Storrs and Efimov (2000).
Turanosuchus aralensis was named by Efimov (1988). Its type specimen is PIN 2229/507, a mandible (Mandibular symphysis), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Shakh-Shakh (lower), which is in a Santonian/Campanian fluvial-lacustrine claystone/sandstone in the Bostobe Formation of Kazakhstan. It is the type species of Turanosuchus.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Halliday et al. (2015), Kuzmin et al. (2019).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1975	Kansajsuchus Efimov
1988	Turanosuchus Efimov
1988	Turanosuchus aralensis Efimov
2000	Kansajsuchus Storrs and Efimov p. 409
2000	Turanosuchus Storrs and Efimov p. 409
2000	Turanosuchus aralensis Storrs and Efimov p. 409
2015	Kansajsuchus Halliday et al.
2019	Kansajsuchus Kuzmin et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
class	Osteichthyes
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
subclass	Eureptilia	()

Rank	Name	Author
—	Romeriida
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
—	Pseudosuchia	(Zittel 1890)
—	Suchia	Krebs 1974
—	Paracrocodylomorpha
—	Loricata	(Merrem 1820)
—	Crocodylomorpha	()
—	Solidocrania
suborder	Crocodyliformes
—	Mesoeucrocodylia	Whetstone and Whybrow 1983
—	Neosuchia	Clark 1988
suborder	Eusuchia	Huxley 1875
family	Paralligatoridae	Konjukova 1954
genus	Kansajsuchus	Efimov 1975

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.

G. †Kansajsuchus Efimov 1975

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†Kansajsuchus extensus Efimov 1975

Invalid names: Turanosuchus Efimov 1988 [synonym], Turanosuchus aralensis Efimov 1988 [nomen dubium]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

marineuc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Diet:

carnivoresubo

Created:

2017-04-17 10:39:01

Modified:

2017-04-17 10:39:01

Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade

References: Benton 1983, Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Cenomanian to the top of the Early/Lower Santonian or 100.50000 to 83.60000 Ma

Collections (3 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	Uzbekistan (Navoi)	K. sp. (64685)
Early/Lower Santonian	85.7 - 83.6	Tajikistan (Sogd)	K. extensus (58701)
Santonian - Early/Lower Campanian	85.7 - 72.2	Kazakhstan (Qyzylorda)	Crocodylia indet. (53134)