参考学习资料 生物学习 南非早三叠世古鳄科的分类和对早期主龙形类辐射的影响.pdf

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TAXONOMYOFTHEPROTEROSUCHID

ARCHOSAURIFORMS(DIAPSIDA:

ARCHOSAUROMORPHA)FROMTHEEARLIEST

TRIASSICOFSOUTHAFRICA,ANDIMPLICATIONS

FORTHEEARLYARCHOSAURIFORMRADIATION

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byMARTIND.EZCURRAandRICHARDJ.BUTLER

1SchoolofGeography,EarthandEnvironmentalSciences,UniversityofBirmingham,Edgbaston,BirminghamB152TT,UK;

e-mails:martindezcurra@.ar,r.butler.1@bham.ac.uk

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GeoBio-Center,Ludwig-Maximilians-UniversitatMunchen,Richard-Wagner-Str.10,D-80333,Munich,Germany

Typescriptreceived30June2014;acceptedinrevisedform29August2014

Abstract:ProterosuchidaeisoneofthefirstcladesofholotypeofProterosuchusfergusiisundiagnostic.Asaresult,

Archosauriformes(archosaursandcloselyrelatedspecies)toweproposeaneotype(RC846)forthespecies.‘Chas-

appearinthefossilrecord,withtherichestsampleofthematosaurusvanhoepeni’and‘Elaphrosuchusrubidgei’are

groupcomingfromtheLystrosaurusAssemblageZone(earli-consideredsubjectivejuniorsynonymsofP.fergusi.‘Chas-

estTriassic)ofSouthAfrica.Fournominalproterosuchidmatosaurus’alexanderiisconsideredavalidspecies,for

speciesweredescribedfromSouthAfricaduringthetwenti-whichweproposethenewcombinationP.alexandericomb.

ethcentury(Proterosuchusfergusi,Chasmatosaurusvanhoe-nov.Athirdspecies,P.gowerisp.nov.,iserectedonthe

peni,ChasmatosaurusalexanderiandElaphrosuchusrubidgei),basisofasinglespecimen(NMQR880).Allthreespecies

butinterpretationsoftheirtaxonomy