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Homoeosauridae

Reptilia - Homoeosauridae

Taxonomy
Homeosauridae was named by Gervais (1852). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Sphenodontidae by Cocude-Michel (1963); it was reranked as the subfamily Homeosaurinae by Kuhn (1966); it was misspelled as Homoesauridae by Osborn (1903); it was corrected as Homoeosauridae by Boulenger (1893), Jaekel (1910), Kuhn (1946) and Herrera-Flores et al. (2018).

It was assigned to Rhynchocephalia by Boulenger (1893); to Rhynchocephalia by Osborn (1903); to Homoeosauri by Jaekel (1910); to Sphenodontina by Kuhn (1946); to Sphenodontidae by Kuhn (1966); and to Neosphenodontia by Herrera-Flores et al. (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1893Homoeosauridae Boulenger p. 210
1903Homoesauridae Osborn p. 467
1910Homoeosauridae Jaekel p. 333
1946Homoeosauridae Kuhn p. 62
1966Homeosaurinae Kuhn p. 37
2018Homoeosauridae Herrera-Flores et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
RankNameAuthor
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Eosuchia()
—Neodiapsida
—SauriaGauthier 1984
—Lepidosauromorpha(Benton 1983)
superorderLepidosauria()
—Sphenodontia()
infraorderEusphenodontia
—Neosphenodontia
familyHomoeosauridae()
familyHomoeosauridae()

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.

Fm. Homoeosauridae Gervais 1852
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G. †Homoeosaurus Meyer 1850
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†Homoeosaurus maximiliani von Meyer 1847
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Invalid names: Homoeosaurus jourdani Lortet 1892 [synonym]
†Homoeosaurus parvipes Cocude-Michel 1963
†Homoeosaurus rhodani Lortet 1892
†Homoeosaurus solnhofensis Cocude-Michel 1963
†Homoeosaurus struckmanni Broili 1925
Invalid names: Stelliosaurus Jourdan 1862 [synonym]
G. †Ischnosaurus Thiollière 1856
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†Ischnosaurus gervaisii Thiollière 1856
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to the top of the Middle Berriasian or 155.70000 to 140.20000 Ma

Collections (8 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Kimmeridgian157.3 - 152.1France (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) Ischnosaurus gervaisii (191086)
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian155.7 - 150.8Germany (Bayern) Homoeosaurus maximiliani (57682)
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian155.7 - 150.8France Homoeosaurus maximiliani, Homoeosaurus jourdani, Homoeosaurus rhodani (24426)
Early/Lower Tithonian150.8 - 145.0Germany (Bayern) Homoeosaurus maximiliani (105798 144679) Homoeosaurus solnhofensis (131959)
Early/Lower Tithonian150.8 - 145.0France (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) Homoeosaurus solnhofensis (35262)
Early/Lower Berriasian - Middle Berriasian145.0 - 140.2United Kingdom (England) Sphenodonta indet. (28401)