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Proterosuchus fergusi Broom 1903
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Proterosuchus fergusi Broom, 1903 (fig. 7A–B)
AGE: Induan, Early Triassic (Rubidge, 2005).
OCCURRENCE: Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone (Beaufort Group) of South Africa.
HOLOTYPE: SAM 591, partial skull.
REFERRED MATERIAL: TM 201, incomplete skull; RC 96, complete skull; BSP 514, nearly complete skull and anterior cervical vertebrae; NM QR 1484 (also listed as NMC 3016), complete skull and nearly complete articulated skeleton; NM QR 880, complete braincase and partial skull, partial postcrania; AMNH FR 2237, fragmentary postcranial skeleton with nearly complete articulated leg; BP/1/3993, nearly complete skull with braincase.
REMARKS: See Nesbitt et al., 2009a.
KEY REFERENCES: Broom, 1903; Cruickshank, 1972, 1979; Gow, 1975; Welman and Flemming, 1993; Welman, 1998.
Notes
Published as part of Nesbitt, Sterling J., 2011, The Early Evolution Of Archosaurs: Relationships And The Origin Of Major Clades, pp. 1-292 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (352) on pages 15-17, DOI: 10.1206/352.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5405335
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- Journal article: 10.1206/352.1 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5405335 (URL)
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Broom
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Prolacertiformes
- Family
- Proterosuchidae
- Genus
- Proterosuchus
- Species
- fergusi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Proterosuchus fergusi Broom, 1903 sec. Nesbitt, 2011
References
- Broom, R. 1903. On a new reptile (Proterosuchus fergusi) from the Karoo beds of Tarkastad, South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 4: 159 - 164.
- Rubidge, B. S. 2005. Re-uniting lost continents - fossil reptiles from the ancient Karoo and their wanderlust. South African Journal of Geology 108: 135 - 172.
- Nesbitt, S. J., M. R. Stocker, B. Small, and A. Downs. 2009 a. The osteology and relationships of Vancleavea campi (Reptilia: Archosauriformes). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157: 814 - 864.
- Cruickshank, A. R. I. 1972. The proterosuchian thecodonts. In K. A. Joysey and T. S. Kemp (editors), Studies in vertebrate evolution, 89 - 119. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd.
- Cruickshank, A. R. I. 1979. The ankle joint in some early archosaurs. South African Journal of Science 75: 168 - 178.
- Gow, C. E. 1975. The morphology and relationships of Youngina capensis Broom and Prolacerta broomi Parrington. Palaeontologia Africana 18: 89 - 131.
- Welman, J., and A. F. Flemming. 1993. Statistical analysis of the skulls of Triassic proterosuchids (Reptilia, Archosauromorpha) from South Africa. Paleontologia Africana 30: 113 - 123.
- Welman, J. 1998. The taxonomy of the South African proterosuchids (Reptilia, Archosauromorpha). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18: 340 - 347.