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Shinisauridae
Taxonomy
Shinisauridae was named by Ahl (1930). It is extant. Its type is Shinisaurus. It was considered monophyletic by Conrad (2006).
It was reranked as the subfamily Shinisaurinae by McDowell and Bogert (1954); it was synonymized subjectively with Xenosauridae by Kuhn (1966), Seiffert (1975) and Alifanov (2000).
It was assigned to Xenosauridae by McDowell and Bogert (1954); to Platynota by Conrad (2006); and to Squamata by Böhme (2008).
It was reranked as the subfamily Shinisaurinae by McDowell and Bogert (1954); it was synonymized subjectively with Xenosauridae by Kuhn (1966), Seiffert (1975) and Alifanov (2000).
It was assigned to Xenosauridae by McDowell and Bogert (1954); to Platynota by Conrad (2006); and to Squamata by Böhme (2008).
Subtaxa
Bahndwivici, Shinisaurus (type genus)
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1930 | Shinisauridae Ahl |
| 1954 | Shinisaurinae McDowell and Bogert p. 131 |
| 2006 | Shinisauridae Conrad p. 113 |
| 2008 | Shinisauridae Böhme p. 169 |
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Fm. Shinisauridae Ahl 1930
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G. Shinisaurus Ahl 1930 [Chinese crocodile lizard]
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Shinisaurus crocodilurus Ahl 1930 [Chinese crocodile lizard]
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| S. B. McDowell and C. M. Bogert 1954 | Osteoderms isolated from one another, large, longitudinally elliptical, with a median carina; skull compressed; teeth bluntly pointed, slightly recurved and moderately long; supratemporal fenestra large, the squamosal separated from the parietal. |