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Polyglyphanodon

Reptilia - Polyglyphanodontidae

Taxonomy

Polyglyphanodon was named by Gilmore (1940). It is the type genus of Polyglyphanodontidae.

It was assigned to Sauria by Gilmore (1940); to Teiidae by Carroll (1988), Gao and Fox (1991); to Polyglyphanodontidae by Gilmore (1942), Sulimski (1975), Longrich et al. (2012); and to Polyglyphanodontinae by Estes (1983), McCord (1998), Nydam (1999), Xu et al. (2014).

Species

P. sternbergi

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1940	Polyglyphanodon Gilmore p. 1
1942	Polyglyphanodon Gilmore p. 230
1975	Polyglyphanodon Sulimski p. 78
1983	Polyglyphanodon Estes
1988	Polyglyphanodon Carroll
1991	Polyglyphanodon Gao and Fox
1998	Polyglyphanodon McCord p. 289 fig. 3
1999	Polyglyphanodon Nydam p. 307
2012	Polyglyphanodon Longrich et al.
2014	Polyglyphanodon Xu et al.

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

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

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. †Polyglyphanodon Gilmore 1940

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†Polyglyphanodon sternbergi Gilmore 1940

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

terrestrialuc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Diet:

herbivoreg

Created:

2009-01-04 09:46:23

Modified:

2009-01-04 11:46:23

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

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

Age range: Late/Upper Maastrichtian or 72.20000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections: one only

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	USA (Utah)	Lacertilia indet. (45721)