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Node-based clade: "Archosauria" Cope 1869 [Gauthier & Padian 1985], nom. cl. inval. (vertebrate)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  E.D. Cope, 1869 [J. Gauthier & K. Padian, in M.K. Hecht et al., eds., 1985], nom. cl. praeinit.
Subsequent clade name (orig. spell.):  Gauthier, J. & Padian, K. 1985. In M.K. Hecht, J.H. Ostrom, G. Viohl & P. Wellnhofer (eds.), The Beginnings of Birds: 187.
Original definition [PhyloCode]:  op. cit.: 187 ("Archosauria, including crocodiles, birds, and all fossil taxa that share their most recent common ancestor, is monophyletic."). ≡
Emended definition [PhyloCode]:  Gauthier, 1986: App. A (p. 42) ("n. comb.").
Emended definition [PhyloCode]:  Nesbitt, S.J. 2011. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. (no. 352): 193 ("Cope, 1869", "Revised definition: ... (sensu Sereno, 2005)").

Attributes

Pre-starting-point clade name (nom. cl. inval.: "nom. cl. praeinit.") [PhyloCode: Note 6.2.1 ([1984-]<2020)] Ref: S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present. Syst. Nat. 2000: 30 Nov 2023.

Variants

Rank-based name: Archosauria (Division) Cope, 1869 Ref: M.J. Benton, 2005: 396. [inferred]
Rank-based name: Archosauria (Superorder) Cope, 1869 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 619. [inferred]
Established (clade) name: Archosauria (Clade) Cope 1869 [Gauthier & Padian 2020] Ref: J.A. Gauthier & K. Padian, 2020: [1187]. [inferred]
Current rank: Archosauria (Division) Cope, 1869 Ref: M.J. Benton, 2005: 396. [inferred]

Synonyms

Accepted name: Avesuchia ([unranked]) Benton, 1999 Ref: M.J. Benton, 2004: 14 ("crown group Archosauria").
Synonymous name: Avesuchia ([unranked]) Benton, 1999 Ref: S.J. Nesbitt, 2011: 193.
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