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Pleurosauridae
Taxonomy
Pleurosauridae was named by Lydekker (1888). It was considered monophyletic by Rauhut et al. (2012).
It was assigned to Pleurosauri by Jaekel (1910); to Acrosauria by Kuhn (1946); to Pleurosauria by Kuhn (1966); to Diapsida by Benton (1985); to Sphenodonta by Carroll (1988); to Sphenodontia by Rauhut et al. (2012); to Rhynchocephalia by Osborn (1903), Klein and Scheyer (2017); and to Neosphenodontia by Herrera-Flores et al. (2018).
It was assigned to Pleurosauri by Jaekel (1910); to Acrosauria by Kuhn (1946); to Pleurosauria by Kuhn (1966); to Diapsida by Benton (1985); to Sphenodonta by Carroll (1988); to Sphenodontia by Rauhut et al. (2012); to Rhynchocephalia by Osborn (1903), Klein and Scheyer (2017); and to Neosphenodontia by Herrera-Flores et al. (2018).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1861 | Acrosauridae Meyer |
| 1888 | Pleurosauridae Lydekker |
| 1903 | Acrosauridae Osborn p. 467 |
| 1903 | Pleurosauridae Osborn p. 467 |
| 1910 | Pleurosauridae Jaekel p. 333 |
| 1946 | Pleurosauridae Kuhn p. 63 |
| 1966 | Pleurosauridae Kuhn p. 39 |
| 1985 | Pleurosauridae Benton p. 153 |
| 1988 | Pleurosauridae Carroll |
| 2012 | Pleurosauridae Rauhut et al. |
| 2017 | Pleurosauridae Klein and Scheyer p. 1 |
| 2018 | Pleurosauridae Herrera-Flores et al. |
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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.
Fm. †Pleurosauridae Lydekker 1888
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G. †Pleurosaurus Meyer
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†Pleurosaurus ginsburgi Fabre 1974
†Pleurosaurus goldfussi von Meyer 1831
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Invalid names: Anguisaurus bipes Münster 1839 [synonym], Anguisaurus minor Wagner 1860 [synonym], Anguisaurus munsteri Wagner 1858 [synonym]
Invalid names: Anguisaurus Münster 1839 [synonym], Saurophidium Jourdan 1862 [synonym]
Invalid names: Acrosauridae Meyer 1861 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Toarcian to the top of the Early/Lower Tithonian or 184.20000 to 145.06000 Ma
Collections (16 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Toarcian | Germany (Baden-Württemberg) | Palaeopleurosaurus posidoniae (114111 114112) | |
| Early/Lower Toarcian | Germany (Bayern) | Palaeopleurosaurus posidoniae (137135) | |
| Toarcian | Germany (Oberpfalz) | Palaeopleurosaurus posidoniae (192404) | |
| Kimmeridgian | France (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) | Pleurosaurus goldfussi (92110) | |
| Late/Upper Kimmeridgian | France | Pleurosaurus goldfussi (24426) | |
| Early/Lower Tithonian | Germany (Bayern) | Acrosaurus frischmanni (53034) Anguisaurus bipes (123906) Pleurosaurus ginsburgi (203450) Pleurosaurus goldfussi (102300 105797 106543 132062 144679 212953) | |
| Early/Lower Tithonian | France (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) | Pleurosaurus goldfussi, Pleurosaurus ginsburgi (35262) |