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Psittacosauroidea (disused)

Osteichthyes

Taxonomy
Psittacosauroidea was named by Zhao (1983).

It was assigned to Pachycephalosauria by Zhao (1983); and to Ceratopsia by Cooper (1985).

Entered
by M. Carrano on 2005-07-08

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1983Psittacosauroidea Zhao p. 300
1985Psittacosauroidea Cooper p. 291

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
RankNameAuthor
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Ornithischia()
—Neornithischia()
—Pyrodontia
—Cerapoda
—Marginocephalia
suborderCeratopsia
superfamilyPsittacosauroidea
superfamilyPsittacosauroidea

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. †Psittacosauroidea Zhao 1983
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available