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Pistosauria
Taxonomy
Pistosauria was named by Baur (1890).
It was reranked as the suborder Pistosauria by Kuhn (1946); it was reranked as the suborder Pistosaurida by Kuhn (1971); it was reranked as the superfamily Pistosauria by Rieppel (2000); it was reranked as the unranked clade Pistosauria by O'Keefe (2001).
It was assigned to Sauropterygia by Kuhn (1946), Kuhn (1971); to Pistosauroidea by Rieppel (2000); to Sauropterygia by O'Keefe (2001); and to Sauropterygia by Rieppel et al. (2002).
It was reranked as the suborder Pistosauria by Kuhn (1946); it was reranked as the suborder Pistosaurida by Kuhn (1971); it was reranked as the superfamily Pistosauria by Rieppel (2000); it was reranked as the unranked clade Pistosauria by O'Keefe (2001).
It was assigned to Sauropterygia by Kuhn (1946), Kuhn (1971); to Pistosauroidea by Rieppel (2000); to Sauropterygia by O'Keefe (2001); and to Sauropterygia by Rieppel et al. (2002).
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