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Lycaenops minor

Gorgonopidae

Taxonomy
Aelurognathus minor was named by Brink and Kitching (1953). Its type specimen is BP/1/262, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Bethesda Road Area, which is in a Wuchiapingian/Changhsingian terrestrial horizon in South Africa.

It was recombined as Lycaenops minor by Sigogneau (1970), Sigogneau-Russell (1989) and Kammerer (2016).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1934Aelurognathus microdon Boonstra
1953Aelurognathus minor Brink and Kitching
1970Lycaenops microdon Sigogneau
1970Lycaenops minor Sigogneau
1989Lycaenops microdon Sigogneau-Russell
1989Lycaenops minor Sigogneau-Russell
2016Lycaenops minor Kammerer

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
RankNameAuthor
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
suborderGorgonopsia
familyGorgonopidae(Lydekker 1890)
subfamilyGorgonopsinaeSigogneau-Russell 1970
genusLycaenopsBroom 1925
speciesminor()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Lycaenops minor Brink and Kitching 1953
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Invalid names: Aelurognathus microdon Boonstra 1934 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available