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Paraphyletic taxon: Genus †Postosuchus Chatterjee, 1985 (reptile)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia - (Order) Rauisuchia - (Family) Rauisuchidae

Current position

†Rauisuchidae (Family) Huene, 1942

Ref: S.J. Nesbitt, 2011: 203. [implicit]

Alternative positions

†*Poposauridae* (Family) Nopcsa, 1923	Ref: M.J. Benton, 2005: 141.
†*Rauisuchidae* (Clade) Huene 1936 [Sereno 2005]	Ref: S.J. Nesbitt, 2011: 203.

Historical positions

*Archosauria* (Clade) Cope 1869 [Gauthier & Padian 1985], nom. cl. inval.	Ref: C.F. Kammerer et al., 2012(2011): 282 (fig. 4). [rough position]
†*Rauisuchidae* (Clade) Huene 1936 [Sereno 2005]	Ref: S.J. Nesbitt, 2011: 203.
*Suchia* (Clade) Krebs 1974 [Sereno 1991]	Ref: M.J. Benton, 2004: 14, fig. 1.8A. [out of scope (coherent)]
†*Poposauridae* (Family) Nopcsa, 1923	Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 619.

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	†2s;3
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000: 21 Nov 2023	[; †2s]

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