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Vitalia
Taxonomy
Vitalia was named by Ivakhnenko (1973). It is not extant.
It was assigned to Procolophonidae by Ivakhnenko (1973) and Carroll (1988); to Amniota by Spencer and Benton (2000); and to Trilophosauria by Arkhangelskii and Sennikov (2008).
It was assigned to Procolophonidae by Ivakhnenko (1973) and Carroll (1988); to Amniota by Spencer and Benton (2000); and to Trilophosauria by Arkhangelskii and Sennikov (2008).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1973 | Vitalia Ivakhnenko p. 248 |
| 1988 | Vitalia Carroll |
| 2000 | Vitalia Spencer and Benton p. 174 |
| 2008 | Vitalia Arkhangelskii and Sennikov |
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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.
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| M. F. Ivakhnenko 1973 | Rear teeth of lower jaw rounded, with dome-shaped points, acrodont. Small grooves on anterior and posterior faces of points. Incisors have transversely expanded oblong crowns and the tooth substance is strongly rooted in the bone, so that the incisors are practically of thecodont type. Dentary high, rising sharply to the coronoid, with a very broad Meckel's canal. |
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||