Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia

Phylogeny

Branch-based clade

Ref: S.J. Nesbitt, 2011: 195-196 (Heckert & Lucas, 2000). [implicit]

Defined by included taxon (and all taxa more closely related to it than to the excluded taxon)

†Desmatosuchus (Genus) Case, 1920

Ref: S.J. Nesbitt, 2011: 195 (Heckert & Lucas, 2000).

Defined by excluded taxon

†Prestosuchidae (Family) Romer, 1966		Ref: S.J. Nesbitt, 2011: 196 ("prestosuchians") (Heckert & Lucas, 2000). [implicit]
†Rauisuchia ([unranked]) Bonaparte, 1982		Ref: S.J. Nesbitt, 2011: 196 ("rauisuchians") (Heckert & Lucas, 2000). [implicit]

Branch-based clade

†Aetosauria (Clade) Marsh 1884 [Heckert & Lucas 2000]

Ref: S.J. Nesbitt, 2011: 196.

Current position

Suchia (Clade) Krebs 1974 [Sereno 1991]

Ref: S.J. Nesbitt, 2011: 195. [emended diagnosis]

Alternative positions

Crurotarsi (Clade) Sereno & Arcucci 1990	Ref: D.J. Gower, 2000: fig. 1 [Brochu, 2003: fig. 1].
Pseudosuchia (Clade) Zittel 1887-1890 [Gauthier & Padian 1985]	Ref: M.J. Benton, 1990: 16.

Historical positions

Suchia (Clade) Krebs 1974 [Sereno 1991]	Ref: S.J. Nesbitt, 2011: 195-196, fig. 51. [emended diagnosis]
Crurotarsi (Clade) Sereno & Arcucci 1990	Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2003: fig. 1 [Gower, 2000: fig. 1]. [indirect]
Pseudosuchia (Clade) Zittel 1887-1890 [Gauthier & Padian 1985]	Ref: M.J. Benton, 1990: 16.

Number of Subtaxa

2024

Available in Systema Naturae 2000

†1g;1s