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Shastasauria (disused)

Osteichthyes

Taxonomy
Shastasauria was named by Motani (1999). It is not extant.

It was reranked as the infraorder Shastasauria by McGowan and Motani (2003).

It was assigned to Merriamosauria by Motani (1999), McGowan and Motani (2003), Moon (2017), Moon (2019).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1999Shastasauria Motani p. 478
2003Shastasauria McGowan and Motani
2017Shastasauria Moon
2019Shastasauria Moon p. 146

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
RankNameAuthor
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Ichthyosauromorpha
—Ichthyosauriformes
—Ichthyopterygia(Owen 1840)
—Eoichthyosauria
—Ichthyosauria(de Blainville 1835)
—Hueneosauria
—Merriamosauria
—Shastasauria
—Shastasauria

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.

Unr. †Shastasauria Motani 1999
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available