Turfanosuchus

Desojo, Julia B., Ezcurra, Martin D. & Schultz, Cesar L., 2011, An unusual new archosauriform from the Middle-Late Triassic of southern Brazil and the monophyly of Doswelliidae, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 161 (4), pp. 839-871 : 870

TURFANOSUCHUS

Character 27: the partially disarticulated condition of the skull of the holotype of Turfanosuchus prevents us from assessing confidently the position of the occipital condyle with respect to the craniomandibular joint. As result, we prefer to rescore this character as (?) instead of (0).

Character states modified from characters of the data matrix of Nesbitt et al. (2009a):

Character 108 (49 of Nesbitt et al., 2009a): we rescored the character states of several of the terminals used in the data matrix following personal observations of the specimens and in some cases bibliographical data. Accordingly, the plesiomorphic condition of the character (i.e. metatarsal IV with nearly the same midshaft diameter as metatarsal III) is exhibited by Prolacerta , Mesosuchus, Proterosuchus , Erythrosuchus , Stagonolepis , Marasuchus, Qianosuchus , and Vancleavea . By contrast, a metatarsal IV with a mid-shaft diameter less than that of the metatarsal III is observed in Euparkeria , Chanaresuchus, Parasuchus , Gracilisuchus , Scleromochlus , and Turfanosuchus .