Biology:Rauisuchidae
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| Mounted skeleton of Postosuchus kirkpatricki in the Museum of Texas Tech University | |
Scientific classification 
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| Missing taxonomy template (fix): | Archosauria/Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Loricata |
| Family: | †Rauisuchidae Huene, 1942 |
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Rauisuchidae is a group of large (up to 6 metres (20 ft) or more) predatory Triassic archosaurs. Some disagreement exists over which genera should be included in the Rauisuchidae and which should be in the related Prestosuchidae and Poposauridae, and indeed whether these should even be thought of as separate valid families. Rauisuchids occurred throughout much of the Triassic, and may have first occurred in the Early Triassic if some archosaurian taxa such as Scythosuchus and Tsylmosuchus are considered to be within the family.[1]
An early cladistic analysis of crocodylotarsan (pseudosuchian) archosaurs included Lotosaurus, Fasolasuchus, Rauisuchus, and "the Kupferzell rauisuchid" (later called Batrachotomus) within the Rauisuchidae.[2] However, a later study found that Batrachotomus was a more basal pseudosuchian only slightly more "advanced" than Prestosuchus.[3] In addition, the toothless Lotosaurus has been found to be more closely related to the Ctenosauriscidae, a clade of poposauroids with sails on their backs.[4]
Two genera, previously classified as poposaurids, are in fact rauisuchids. These include Teratosaurus[5][6] and Postosuchus.[7]
Genera
| Genus | Status | Age | Location | Unit | Notes | Images |
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| Valid | Late Triassic |  Morocco
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Named for the Moroccan fossil site where it was discovered, the Argana Basin. Its phylogenetic placement is uncertain. | |||
| Valid | Anisian |  China
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May be a chimera of fossils from the erythrosuchid Shansisuchus and an indeterminate archosaur. | |||
| Valid | Ladinian |  Russia
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Placement uncertain | |||
| Valid | Carnian |  Poland
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| Valid | Late Triassic |  US
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Chinle Formation |
One of the most well-known genera of Rauisuchidae | 
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| Valid | Carnian |  Brazil
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Santa Maria Formation | Placement uncertain | ||
| Valid | Middle Triassic | Brazil
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| Scolotosuchus | Valid | Olenekian | Russia
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Lipovskaya Formation | ||
| Valid | Norian -
Rhaetian |
 Germany
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Löwenstein Formation | Once considered an early carnosaurian dinosaur | 
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| Valid | Late Triassic |  India
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Tiki Formation | Placement uncertain | ||
| Valid | Olenekian | Russia
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Possibly one of the oldest archosaurs. | |||
| Valid | Norian | US
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Chinle Formation | |||
| Valid | Anisian | Russia
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May be an erythrosuchid | |||
| Valid | Olenekian | Russia
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Placement uncertain |
References
- ↑ Gower, D. J.; Sennikov, A. G. (2003). "Early archosaurs from Russia". The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 140–159.
- ↑ Parrish JM. 1993. Phylogeny of the Crocodylotarsi, with reference to archosaurian and crurotarsan monophyly. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 13: 287–308.
- ↑ Gower DJ. 2002. Braincase evolution in suchian archosaurs: evidence from the rauisuchian Batrachotomus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 136: 49–76.
- ↑ Nesbitt SJ. 2005. Osteology of the Middle Triassic pseudosuchian archosaur Arizonasaurus babbitti. Historical Biology 17: 19–47.
- ↑ Long RA, Murry PA. 1995. Late Triassic (Carnian and Norian) tetrapods from the Southwestern United States. New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science Bulletin 4: 1–254.
- ↑ Galton PM, Walker AD. 1996. Bromsgroveia from the Middle Triassic of England, the earliest record of a poposaurid thecodontian reptile (Archosauria: Rauisuchia). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 201 (3): 303–325.
- ↑ Weinbaum JC, Hungerbühler A. 2007. A revision of Poposaurus gracilis (Archosauria: Suchia) based on two new specimens from the Late Triassic of the southwestern U.S.A. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 81(2):131–145.
External links
- Taxon Search – Rauisuchidae
- Rauisuchidae – Mikko's Phylogeny Archive.
- Re: Postosuchus/Rauisuchus – Dinosaur Mailing List archives
- Rauisuchidae – Dinosaur Mailing List archives
Wikidata ☰ Q134295 entry
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