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Nesotrochis (cave-rail)

Reptilia - Gruiformes - Rallidae

Taxonomy
Nesotrochis was named by Wetmore (1918). It is not extant.

It was assigned to Gallinulinae by Brodkorb (1967); and to Rallidae by Lambrecht (1933), Wetmore (1956), Olson (1977), Carroll (1988).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1918Nesotrochis Wetmore
1933Nesotrochis Lambrecht p. 467
1956Nesotrochis Wetmore p. 65
1967Nesotrochis Brodkorb p. 127
1977Nesotrochis Olson p. 352
1988Nesotrochis Carroll

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
RankNameAuthor
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
—Maniraptora
—Paraves
classAves
subclassNeornithesGadow 1893
—Neognathae(Pycraft 1900)
—NeoavesSibley et al. 1988
—Terrestrornithes
—Telmatorae
superorderCharadriimorphaeHuxley 1867
orderGruiformesBonaparte 1854
familyRallidaeVigors 1825
genusNesotrochisWetmore 1918

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.

G. †Nesotrochis Wetmore 1918 [cave-rail]
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†Nesotrochis debooyi Wetmore 1918
†Nesotrochis steganinos Olson 1974
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available