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Pygopodoidea (disused)

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Pygopodoidea was named as a superfamily. It is extant.

It was reranked as the unranked clade Pygopodoidea by Kuhn (1946).

It was assigned to Kionocrania by Kuhn (1946); and to Gekkota by Kuhn (1966).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1946Pygopodoidea Kuhn p. 61
1966Pygopodoidea Kuhn p. 48

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
RankNameAuthor
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
—Squamata()
suborderGekkonomorpha
infraorderGekkotaCuvier 1817
superfamilyPygopodoidea
superfamilyPygopodoidea

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.

Superfm. Pygopodoidea
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Invalid names: Anelytropidae Cope 1864 [empty], Pygopidae Boulenger 1884 [empty]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available