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Dicothodon

Osteichthyes - Polyglyphanodontidae

Taxonomy

Dicothodon was named by Nydam (1999).

It was assigned to Polyglyphanodontinae by Nydam (1999), Nydam (2002); and to Polyglyphanodontini by Nydam et al. (2007), Reynoso and Cruz (2014).

Species

D. bajaensis, D. cifellii, D. moorensis

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1999	Dicothodon Nydam
2002	Dicothodon Nydam p. 651
2007	Dicothodon Nydam et al. p. 540
2014	Dicothodon Reynoso and Cruz p. 60–61

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
class	Osteichthyes
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha

Rank	Name	Author
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
—	Squamata	()
—	Scincomorpha	()
—	Polyglyphanodontia	Alifanov 2000
family	Polyglyphanodontidae	Gilmore 1942
—	Polyglyphanodontini
genus	Dicothodon

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. †Dicothodon Nydam 1999

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†Dicothodon bajaensis Nydam 1999

†Dicothodon cifellii Nydam et al. 2007

†Dicothodon moorensis Nydam 1999

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

terrestrialuc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Diet:

omnivoreg

Created:

2009-01-04 09:45:12

Modified:

2009-01-04 11:45:12

Source: g = genus, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade

References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Evans and Manabe 2008

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Cenomanian to the top of the Late/Upper Campanian or 100.50000 to 72.20000 Ma

Collections (12 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	USA (Utah)	Polyglyphanodontinae indet. (14399)
Late/Upper Cenomanian - Early/Lower Campanian	100.5 - 72.2	USA (Utah)	D. sp. (181360)
Late/Upper Turonian	93.9 - 89.8	USA (Utah)	D. cifellii (75848) D. sp. (14415)
Middle Turonian	93.9 - 89.8	USA (Utah)	D. cifellii (14416)
Late/Upper Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	Mexico (Baja California)	D. bajaensis (195102 195103 195104 195105 197021) Polyglyphanodon bajaensis (14456 231484)