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Platyognathus

Reptilia

Taxonomy

Platyognathus was named by Young (1944). It is the type genus of Platyognathidae.

It was assigned to Pseudosuchia by Young (1951); to Pseudosuchia by Young (1944) and Charig (1967); to Pedeticosauridae by Walker (1970); to Platyognathidae by Simmons (1965) and Carroll (1988); to Protosuchia by Wu and Sues (1996); and to Crocodyliformes by Luo and Wu (1994) and Irmis et al. (2013).

Species

P. hsui

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1944	Platyognathus Young p. 1
1951	Platyognathus Young p. 25
1965	Platyognathus Simmons p. 34
1967	Platyognathus Charig p. 704
1970	Platyognathus Walker p. 369
1988	Platyognathus Carroll
1994	Platyognathus Luo and Wu p. 265
1996	Platyognathus Wu and Sues
2013	Platyognathus Irmis et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	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
—	Paracrocodylomorpha
—	Loricata	(Merrem 1820)
—	Crocodylomorpha	()
—	Solidocrania
suborder	Crocodyliformes
genus	Platyognathus

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. †Platyognathus Young 1944

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†Platyognathus hsui Young 1944

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

terrestrialsubc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Diet:

carnivoresubo

Created:

2009-01-03 20:38:45

Modified:

2009-01-03 22:38:45

Source: subo = suborder, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum

References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Benton 1983

Age range: base of the Sinemurian to the top of the Early/Lower Tithonian or 199.30000 to 145.00000 Ma

Collections (3 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Sinemurian	199.3 - 190.8	China (Yunnan)	P. hsui (49773 49777)
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Early/Lower Tithonian	155.7 - 145.0	USA (Colorado)	P. sp. (53021)