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Archosauria: Crurotarsi to Crocodylia
Taxon
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Taxon
Aetosauridae
Nominal Author
Nicholson and Lydekker 1889 (also Cope 1889)
2° Nominal Author
Taxon Status
active
inactive
Comments
Potential Synonomy
Aethosauridae (Baur 1887, spelling variant)
Active Phylogenetic Definition
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Active Definition
Shorthand
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Definition Status
original
textual substitution
first-order revision
second-order revision
Definition Type
node
stem
Node-Stem Triplet
yes
no
Other Triplet Taxa
Specifiers
Specifier A
Specifier(s) B
Specifier(s) C
Qualifiers
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-Taxon
Datum
Taxonomic Content
stem (entirely extinct)
crown (extant-bounded)
mixed (extant/extinct-bounded)
Publication Year
Inactive Taxon Status
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Rejection Criteria
junior synonym
historically polyphyletic
incomplete definition
no definition
apomorphy-based
redundant
other
Critique
No deifnition has been proposed. Romer (1956) utilized this taxon as a family-level taxon to contain
Aetosaurus
and
Stegomus
, while Krebs (1976) considered this taxon equivalent to Stagonolepididae.
Current Age Range
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Additional Definitional History:
None Available
