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Pleurosauridae
Taxonomy
Pleurosauridae was named by Lydekker (1888). It was considered monophyletic by Rauhut et al. (2012).
It was assigned to Pleurosauri by Jaekel (1910); to Acrosauria by Kuhn (1946); to Pleurosauria by Kuhn (1966); to Diapsida by Benton (1985); to Sphenodonta by Carroll (1988); to Sphenodontia by Rauhut et al. (2012); to Rhynchocephalia by Osborn (1903), Klein and Scheyer (2017); and to Neosphenodontia by Herrera-Flores et al. (2018).
It was assigned to Pleurosauri by Jaekel (1910); to Acrosauria by Kuhn (1946); to Pleurosauria by Kuhn (1966); to Diapsida by Benton (1985); to Sphenodonta by Carroll (1988); to Sphenodontia by Rauhut et al. (2012); to Rhynchocephalia by Osborn (1903), Klein and Scheyer (2017); and to Neosphenodontia by Herrera-Flores et al. (2018).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1861 | Acrosauridae Meyer |
| 1888 | Pleurosauridae Lydekker |
| 1903 | Acrosauridae Osborn p. 467 |
| 1903 | Pleurosauridae Osborn p. 467 |
| 1910 | Pleurosauridae Jaekel p. 333 |
| 1946 | Pleurosauridae Kuhn p. 63 |
| 1966 | Pleurosauridae Kuhn p. 39 |
| 1985 | Pleurosauridae Benton p. 153 |
| 1988 | Pleurosauridae Carroll |
| 2012 | Pleurosauridae Rauhut et al. |
| 2017 | Pleurosauridae Klein and Scheyer p. 1 |
| 2018 | Pleurosauridae Herrera-Flores et al. |
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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.
Fm. †Pleurosauridae Lydekker 1888
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G. †Pleurosaurus Meyer
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†Pleurosaurus ginsburgi Fabre 1974
†Pleurosaurus goldfussi von Meyer 1831
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Invalid names: Anguisaurus bipes Münster 1839 [synonym], Anguisaurus minor Wagner 1860 [synonym], Anguisaurus munsteri Wagner 1858 [synonym]
Invalid names: Anguisaurus Münster 1839 [synonym], Saurophidium Jourdan 1862 [synonym]
Invalid names: Acrosauridae Meyer 1861 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available