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Cyamodontidae

Reptilia - Placodontia - Cyamodontidae

Taxonomy
Cyamodontidae was named by Nopcsa (1923). It is not extant.

It was reranked as the subfamily Cyamodontinae by Kuhn (1946).

It was assigned to Placodontidae by Kuhn (1946); to Cyamodontida by Kuhn (1971); to Cyamodontida by Rieppel (2000); to Cyamodontida by Rieppel (2001); and to Placodontia by Carroll (1988), Pinna and Nosotti (1989) and Wang et al. (2019).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1923Cyamodontidae Nopcsa
1946Cyamodontinae Kuhn p. 60
1971Cyamodontidae Kuhn p. 20
1988Cyamodontidae Carroll
1989Cyamodontidae Pinna and Nosotti
2000Cyamodontidae Rieppel
2001Cyamodontidae Rieppel p. 73
2019Cyamodontidae Wang et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
suborderSauropterygia
orderPlacodontiaCope 1871
familyCyamodontidaeNopcsa 1923
familyCyamodontidaeNopcsa 1923

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.

Fm. †Cyamodontidae Nopcsa 1923
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G. †Cyamodus von Meyer 1863
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Cyamodus hildegardis Peyer 1931
Cyamodus kuhnschnyderi Nosotti and Pinna 1993
Cyamodus muensteri Agassiz 1834
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Invalid names: Cyamodus laticeps Owen 1859 [synonym]
Cyamodus orientalis Wang et al. 2019
Cyamodus rostratus Münster 1839
Cyamodus tarnowitzensis Gürich 1884
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
O. Rieppel 2001Anterior end of maxilla extended medially to floor the external naris; jugal extending backward along anteromedial margin of subtemporal fossa; frontals extending posteriorly beyond the level of the anterior margin of the upper temporal fossa; upper temporal fenestra relatively broad; upper temporal fenestra at least twice as long as orbit; premaxillary teeth bulbous, with transverse ridge; jugal extends medially to meet palatine at anterior margin of subtemporal fossa; pterygoid flange with double ventral projection; coronoid closely approaches the lower margin of mandible.
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinesubo
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 10:38:36
Modified: 2017-04-17 10:38:36
Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Bush and Bambach 2015, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Illyrian to the top of the Carnian or 247.20000 to 228.00000 Ma

Collections (18 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Anisian247.2 - 242.0Spain (Castilla-La Mancha) Cyamodontidae indet. (74517)
Illyrian247.2 - 242.0Germany (Bavaria) Cyamodus rostratus, Cyamodus muensteri (196168)
Anisian - Ladinian247.2 - 237.0Italy (Piedmont) Cyamodus hildegardis (86708)
Anisian - Ladinian247.2 - 237.0Switzerland (Kanton Tessin) Cyamodus hildegardensis (86837)
Middle Triassic247.2 - 237.0Germany (Bayern) Placodus laticeps (105334)
Middle Triassic247.2 - 237.0Germany (Baden-Württemberg) Cyamodus sp. (39763)
Ladinian242.0 - 237.0Poland Cyamodus tarnowitzensis (138137)
Ladinian242.0 - 237.0Germany (Baden-Württemberg) Cyamodus sp. (138084)
Ladinian242.0 - 237.0France (Alsace) Cyamodus kuhnschnyderi (104803)
Ladinian242.0 - 237.0Germany (Bavaria) Cyamodus sp. (138087)
Ladinian242.0 - 237.0Germany Cyamodus kuhnschnyderi (59927) Cyamodus sp. (138088 138097)
Ladinian242.0 - 237.0Hungary Cyamodus sp. (156151)
Ladinian242.0 - 237.0France (Grand Est) Cyamodus sp. (137680)
Ladinian242.0 - 237.0Germany (Bayern) Cyamodus sp. (59966)
Ladinian - Carnian242.0 - 228.0Slovenia Cyamodus sp. (104869)
Tuvalian232.0 - 221.5China (Guizhou) Sinocyamodus xinpuensis, Cyamodus orientalis (85166)