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Parasuchus hislopi

Reptilia - Parasuchidae

Taxonomy
Parasuchus hislopi was named by Lydekker (1885) [Lydekker named Parasuchus hislopi for a series of fragmentary cranial and postcranial elements that included a partial rhynchosaurian braincase mixed with phytosaur bones, scutes and teeth. Chatterjee (1974: Philosophical Trans Roy Soc London B 267: 209-261) designated GSI H20/11, a partial premaxillary rostrum as lectotype. Subsequently, Chatterjee (2001: Bull Zool Nomenclature 58:34-36) successfully petitioned the ICZN to make ISIR 42 the neotype of Parasuchus hislopi]. Its type specimen is ISIR 42, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Mutapurum village, which is in a Carnian/Norian terrestrial claystone in the Lower Maleri Formation of India.

It was recombined as Paleorhinus hislopi by Hunt and Lucas (1991); it was considered a nomen dubium by Long and Murry (1995).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1885Parasuchus hislopi Lydekker
1978Parasuchus hislopi Chatterjee
1990Parasuchus hislopi Jain p. 73
1991Paleorhinus hislopi Hunt and Lucas
2001Parasuchus hislopi Chatterjee
2011Parasuchus hislopi Nesbitt p. 18
2013Parasuchus hislopi Stocker and Butler
2016Parasuchus hislopi Kammerer et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
RankNameAuthor
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
—Pseudosuchia(Zittel 1890)
—Phytosauria(Jaeger 1828)
familyParasuchidaeLydekker 1885
genusParasuchusLydekker 1885
specieshislopi

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.

†Parasuchus hislopi Lydekker 1885
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Diet: carnivoreg
Created: 2009-01-03 21:16:22
Modified: 2009-01-03 23:16:22
Source: g = genus, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Benton 1983

Age range: Carnian or 237.00000 to 228.00000 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Carnian237.0 - 228.0India (Madhya Pradesh) Belodon sp. (94787) Parasuchus hislopi (207798)
Carnian - Norian237.0 - 208.5India (Andhra Pradesh) Parasuchus hislopi (98628)
Carnian - Norian237.0 - 208.5India (Telangana) Parasuchus hislopi (type locality: 106521 112285)