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Desmatosuchus

Osteichthyes

Taxonomy

Desmatosuchus was named by Case (1920). Its type is Desmatosuchus spurensis. It is the type genus of Desmatosuchidae.

It was assigned to Desmatosuchia by Case (1922); to Desmatosuchidae by Case (1920), Huene (1922), Hay (1930); to Aetosauridae by Charig (1967); to Stagonolepididae by Parrish and Carpenter (1986), Carroll (1988), Small (1989), Parrish (1993), Long and Murry (1995), Heckert and Lucas (1999), Irmis (2005); to Desmatosuchinae by Huene (1942), Heckert and Lucas (2000), Zeigler et al. (2002), Parker (2007), Parker (2008); and to Desmatosuchini by Parker (2016).

Species

D. haploceras, D. smalli, D. spurensis (type species)

Entered

by J. Head on 2003-01-23; modified by M. Carrano on 2020-06-11

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1920	Desmatosuchus Case p. 529
1922	Desmatosuchus Case p. 48
1922	Desmatosuchus Huene p. 23
1930	Desmatosuchus Hay p. 140
1942	Desmatosuchus Huene p. 243
1967	Desmatosuchus Charig p. 709
1986	Desmatosuchus Parrish and Carpenter p. 152
1988	Desmatosuchus Carroll
1989	Desmatosuchus Small p. 302
1993	Desmatosuchus Parrish p. 299
1995	Desmatosuchus Long and Murry p. 89
1999	Desmatosuchus Heckert and Lucas
2000	Desmatosuchus Heckert and Lucas
2002	Desmatosuchus Zeigler et al. p. 215
2005	Desmatosuchus Irmis p. 75
2007	Desmatosuchus Parker
2008	Desmatosuchus Parker
2016	Desmatosuchus Parker

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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

Rank	Name	Author
class	Reptilia
subclass	Eureptilia	()
—	Romeriida
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
—	Pseudosuchia	(Zittel 1890)
—	Suchia	Krebs 1974
—	Aetosauria	(Lydekker 1889)
—	Stagonolepididae	(Lydekker 1887)
suborder	Desmatosuchia
subfamily	Desmatosuchinae
—	Desmatosuchini
genus	Desmatosuchus

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. †Desmatosuchus Case 1920

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†Desmatosuchus smalli Parker 2005

†Desmatosuchus spurensis Case 1920

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

terrestrialsubc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

planktonicp

Diet:

herbivoreg

Created:

2009-01-03 21:10:54

Modified:

2009-01-03 23:10:54

Source: g = genus, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum, p = phylum

References: Hendy et al. 2009, Benton 1983, Kiessling 2004, Carroll 1988, Bambach et al. 2007

Age range: base of the Carnian to the top of the Norian or 237.00000 to 205.70000 Ma

Collections (13 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Carnian	237.0 - 227.3	USA (Wyoming)	D. sp. (91590)
Carnian - Norian	237.0 - 205.7	USA (Texas)	D. spurensis (71977)
Norian	227.3 - 205.7	USA (New Mexico)	D. sp. (75651 93570 93604 93611)
Norian	227.3 - 205.7	USA (Arizona)	D. haplocerus (39160 93353 93355) D. sp. (22705) D. spurensis (94497 223390)
Norian	227.3 - 205.7	USA (Texas)	D. haplocerus (13273)