Proterosuchus fergusi Broom 1903

Autor: Nesbitt, Sterling J.
Rok vydání: 2011
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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5476366
Popis: 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.
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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