NORTH CAROLINA

DURHAM COUNTY

GENLEE

MUDDY SANDSTONE OF LITHOFACIES ASSOCIATION II SENSU HOFFMAN AND GALLAGHER (1989)

NEWARK SUPERGROUP

LATE CARNIAN OR EARLY NORIAN STAGE

LOWER-MIDDLE LATE TRIASSIC EPOCH

LATE TRIASSIC

STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930

SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: AMPHIBIA LINNAEUS, 1758

SUBCLASS: LABYRINTHODONTIA OWEN, 1860

SUPERORDER: TEMNOSPONDYLIA ZITTEL, 1887

Incertae sedis

Gen. sp indet.
Note: Stomach content of Postosuchus sp.

CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768

SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1904

SUPERLEGION: NEODIAPSIDA BENTON, 1985

LEGION: ARCHOSAUROMORPHA HUENE, 1946

SUPERCOHORT: CRUROTARSI SERENO & ARCUCCI, 1990

COHORT: CROCODYLOTARSI BENTON & CLARK, 1988

MAGNORDER: SUCHIA KREBS, 1974

SUPERORDER: PSEUDOSUCHIA ZITTEL 1887-1890

GRANDORDER: RAUISUCHIFORMES PARRISH, 1993

ORDER: RAUISUCHIA Bonaparte, 1984

SUBORDER: RAUISUCHIA BONAPARTE, 1982

Family: TERATOSAURIDAE Cope 1871

Subfamily: TERATOSAURINAE Cope 1871

Tribe: TERATOSAURINI Cope, 1871 (sensu Sennikov, 1995) (emend) from Tribe RAUISUCHINI Huene, 1942

*Postosuchus alisonae

ORDER: AETOSAURIA NICHOLSON & LYDEKKER, 1889

Family: STAGONOLEPIDIDAE Lydekker, 1887

Subfamily: AETOSAURINAE Cope, 1889 (sensu Heckert & Lucas, 2000)

Aetosaurus sp
= Stegomus sp
Note: Stomach content of
Postosuchus alisonae

SUPERORDER: CROCODYLOMORPHA WALKER, 1968

ORDER: INCERTAE SEDIS

SUBORDER: SPHENOSUCHIA BONAPARTE, 1971

Family: SPHENOSUCHIDAE Huene, 1922

*Dromicosuchus grallator

SUBCLASS: SYNAPSIDA OSBORN, 1903

SUPERORDER: THERASPID BROOM, 1905

GRANDORDER: EUTHERAPSIDA

MICRORDER: NEOTHERAPSIDA

ORDER: ANOMODONTIA WATSON & ROMER, 1956

SUBORDER: DICYNODONTIA OWEN, 1860

Incertae sedis

Gen. sp indet.
Note: Stomach content of
Postosuchus alisonae.

ORDER: THERIODONTIA OWEN, 1881

EUTHERIODONTIA

SUBORDER: CYNODONTIA OWEN, 1860

EPICYNODONTIA HOPSON & KITCHING, 2001

INFRAORDER: EUCYNODONTIA

MAMMALIAMORPHA ROWE, 1988

Superfamily: TRITYLODONTIA Cope, 1884 (sensu Kuhne, 1943)

Family: TRAVERSODONTIDAE Huene, 1936

Sufamily: TRAVERSODONTINAE Huene, 1936    

*Boreogomphodon herpetairus = Plinthogomphodon herpetairus
Note: Stomach content of Postosuchus