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Lunania

Mammalia - Embrithopoda

Taxonomy
Lunania was named by Chow (1957). It is not extant.

It was assigned to Chalicotherioidea by Carroll (1988); and to Embrithopoda by Prothero and Schoch (1989).

Species

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1957Lunania Chow
1988Lunania Carroll
1989Lunania Prothero and Schoch p. 530

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
RankNameAuthor
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
AfrotheriaStanhope et al. 1998
Tethytheria
orderEmbrithopoda
genusLunaniaChow 1957

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.

G. †Lunania Chow 1957
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Lunania zhoui Huang 2002
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available