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Phalarodon fraasi

Reptilia - Mixosauridae

Taxonomy
Phalarodon fraasi was named by Merriam (1910).

It was synonymized subjectively with Phalarodon nordenskioeldii by Nicholls et al. (1999); it was recombined as Mixosaurus fraasi by McGowan and Motani (2003).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1873Mixosaurus nordenskioeldi Hulke
1910Phalarodon fraasi Merriam
1930Phalarodon fraasi Hay p. 124
1989Mixosaurus nordenskioeldii Callaway and Brinkman p. 1494
1989Phalarodon fraasi Callaway and Brinkman p. 1498
1999Mixosaurus nordenskioeldi Motani fig. 1
2003Mixosaurus fraasi McGowan and Motani
2003Mixosaurus nordenskioeldi McGowan and Motani
2004Mixosaurus nordenskioeldi Schmitz et al.
2010Phalarodon fraasi Maisch
2013Phalarodon fraasi Liu et al.
2016Phalarodon fraasi Ji et al. p. 9

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Eugnathostomata
Teleostomi(Bonaparte 1836)
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
RankNameAuthor
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
Ichthyosauromorpha
Ichthyosauriformes
Ichthyopterygia(Owen 1840)
Eoichthyosauria
Ichthyosauria(de Blainville 1835)
Hueneosauria
familyMixosauridaeBaur 1887
genusPhalarodonMerriam 1910
speciesfraasiMerriam 1910

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.

Phalarodon fraasi Merriam 1910
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Invalid names: Mixosaurus nordenskioeldi Hulke 1873 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available