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Cyamodus kuhnschnyderi
Taxonomy
Cyamodus kuhnschnyderi was named by Nosotti and Pinna (1993). Its type specimen is SMNS 15855, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Upper Muschelkalk, Crailsheim, Baden-Württemberg, which is in a Ladinian shallow subtidal limestone in Germany.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1993 | Cyamodus kuhnschnyderi Nosotti and Pinna |
| 1999 | Cyamodus kuhnschnyderi Rieppel and Hagdorn p. 337 |
| 2001 | Cyamodus kuhnschnyderi Rieppel pp. 74-75 |
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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.
†Cyamodus kuhnschnyderi Nosotti and Pinna 1993
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| O. Rieppel 2001 | Nasals fused; anterolateral process of frontal absent; anteromedial process of the parietal embraced by the frontal; a basiorbital furrow present (also in Cyamodus "laticeps" and Henodus), with three foramina (two in Cyamodus "laticeps" and Henodus); the epipterygoid is incompletely ossified in the adult (may occur convergently in Protenodontosaurus). |