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Prototheria (disused)

Mammalia

Taxonomy
Prototheria was named by Gill (1872). It was considered monophyletic by Waldman and Savage (1972).

It was reranked as the infraclass Prototheria by Griffiths et al. (1991); it was reranked as the unranked clade Prototheria by Averianov and Lopatin (2011).

It was assigned to Mammalia by Huxley (1880), Flower (1883), Cope (1889), Flower and Lydekker (1891), Parker and Haswell (1897), Gadow (1898), Hay (1902), Gregory (1910), Hay (1930), Waldman and Savage (1972), McKenna (1975), Carroll (1988) and Zhou et al. (1991); to Theria by Griffiths et al. (1991); and to Zatheria by Averianov and Lopatin (2011).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1872Prototheria Gill
1880Prototheria Huxley p. 657
1883Prototheria Flower p. 183
1889Prototheria Cope p. 873
1891Prototheria Flower and Lydekker p. 88
1897Prototheria Parker and Haswell p. 448
1898Prototheria Gadow p. 39
1902Prototheria Hay p. 555
1910Prototheria Gregory p. 464
1930Prototheria Hay p. 367
1972Prototheria Waldman and Savage
1975Prototheria McKenna p. 40
1988Prototheria Carroll
1991Prototheria Griffiths et al. p. 90
1991Prototheria Zhou et al.
2011Prototheria Averianov and Lopatin p. 34

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
subclassPrototheriaGill 1872
subclassPrototheriaGill 1872

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.

Subcl. †Prototheria Gill 1872
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Invalid names: Ornithodelphia de Blainville 1834 [empty], Ornithostomi Cope 1889 [empty]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available