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Mesosauridae
Taxonomy
Mesosauridae was named by Baur (1889). It is not extant.
It was assigned to Proganosauria by Zittel (1890); to Pelycosauria by Huene (1941); to Mesosauria by Haughton and Brink (1954) and Carroll (1988); to Parareptilia by Gauthier et al. (1988); to Sauropsida by Laurin and Reisz (1995); to Amniota by Rossmann (2000); to Proganosauria by Baur (1889), Gürich (1889), Kuhn (1946) and Sedor and Ferigolo (2001); and to Mesosauria by Karl et al. (2007).
It was assigned to Proganosauria by Zittel (1890); to Pelycosauria by Huene (1941); to Mesosauria by Haughton and Brink (1954) and Carroll (1988); to Parareptilia by Gauthier et al. (1988); to Sauropsida by Laurin and Reisz (1995); to Amniota by Rossmann (2000); to Proganosauria by Baur (1889), Gürich (1889), Kuhn (1946) and Sedor and Ferigolo (2001); and to Mesosauria by Karl et al. (2007).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1889 | Mesosauridae Baur p. 311 |
1889 | Mesosauridae Gürich p. 652 |
1890 | Mesosauridae Zittel p. 598 |
1892 | Mesosaurus pleurogaster Seeley p. 857 figs. 1-4 Pl. XVIII |
1905 | Mesosaurus pleurogaster Broom p. 103 |
1908 | Mesosaurus pleurogaster Broom p. 380 |
1913 | Noteosaurus Broom p. 358 |
1913 | Noteosaurus africanus Broom p. 359 figs. p. 358 |
1914 | Mesosaurus pleurogaster Stromer p. 532 |
1941 | Mesosauridae Huene p. 56 |
1946 | Mesosauridae Kuhn p. 58 |
1954 | Mesosauridae Haughton and Brink p. 3 |
1988 | Mesosauridae Carroll |
1988 | Mesosauridae Gauthier et al. p. 139 fig. 4.4 |
1995 | Mesosauridae Laurin and Reisz pp. 171, 172 fig. 2 |
2000 | Mesosauridae Rossmann p. 15 |
2001 | Mesosauridae Sedor and Ferigolo p. 151 |
2007 | Mesosauridae Karl et al. p. 67 |
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Fm. †Mesosauridae Baur 1889
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G. †Mesosaurus Gervais 1865
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†Mesosaurus tenuidens Gervais 1865
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Invalid names: Ditrochosaurus capensis Gürich 1889 [synonym], Mesosaurus brasiliensis Mac Gregor 1908 [synonym]
Invalid names: Ditrochosaurus Gürich 1889 [synonym]
Invalid names: Mesosaurus pleurogaster Seeley 1892 [nomen dubium], Noteosaurus Broom 1913 [invalid subgroup], Noteosaurus africanus Broom 1913 [nomen dubium]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available