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Saphaeosauridae
Taxonomy
Saphaeosaurinae was named by Nopcsa (1923).
It was synonymized subjectively with Sauranodontidae by Kuhn (1946); it was synonymized subjectively with Sphenodontidae by Cocude-Michel (1963); it was reranked as the family Sapheosauridae by Kuhn (1966) and Benton (1985); it was reranked as the family Saphaeosauridae by Herrera-Flores et al. (2018).
It was assigned to Sphenodontidae by Nopcsa (1923); to Sphenodontia by Kuhn (1966); to Sphenodonti by Benton (1985); and to Neosphenodontia by Herrera-Flores et al. (2018).
It was synonymized subjectively with Sauranodontidae by Kuhn (1946); it was synonymized subjectively with Sphenodontidae by Cocude-Michel (1963); it was reranked as the family Sapheosauridae by Kuhn (1966) and Benton (1985); it was reranked as the family Saphaeosauridae by Herrera-Flores et al. (2018).
It was assigned to Sphenodontidae by Nopcsa (1923); to Sphenodontia by Kuhn (1966); to Sphenodonti by Benton (1985); and to Neosphenodontia by Herrera-Flores et al. (2018).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1923 | Saphaeosaurinae Nopcsa p. 125 |
| 1966 | Sapheosauridae Kuhn p. 37 |
| 1985 | Sapheosauridae Benton p. 157 |
| 2018 | Saphaeosauridae 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. †Saphaeosauridae Nopcsa 1923
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G. †Kallimodon Cocude-Michel 1963
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†Kallimodon cerinensis Cocude-Michel 1963
†Kallimodon pulchellus Zittel 1887
G. †Sapheosaurus von Meyer 1850
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†Sapheosaurus thiollierei von Meyer 1851
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Invalid names: Sauranodon incisivus Jourdan 1862 [synonym]
Invalid names: Sauranodon Jourdan 1862 [synonym]
Invalid names: Sauranodontidae Lortet 1892 [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 Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to the top of the Kimmeridgian or 155.70000 to 152.10000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Kimmeridgian | France (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) | Sapheosaurus thiollierei (191086) | |
| Late/Upper Kimmeridgian | France | Kallimodon cerinensis (24426) |