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Thecodontosauridae
Taxonomy
Thecodontosauridae was named by Lydekker (1890). Its type is Thecodontosaurus.
It was synonymized subjectively with Anchisauridae by von Zittel (1911), Das-Gupta (1930), Kuhn (1966), Steel (1970), Benedetto (1973), Galton (1973), Heerden (1979), Benton (1979), Cooper (1981); it was synonymized subjectively with Zanclodontidae by Hay (1930).
It was assigned to Theropoda by Lydekker (1893), Huene (1908); to Saurischia by Arldt (1909), Huene (1909); to Pachypodosauria by Huene (1914), Huene (1914), Huene (1920), Nopcsa (1923); to Pachypodosauroidea by Nopcsa (1928); to Prosauropoda by Kuhn (1946), Parsch (1963); to Prosauropoda by Tatarinov (1964); to Plateosauria by Colbert (1964), Colbert (1970); to Palaeopoda by Reig (1970); to Plateosauria by Ellenberger et al. (1970); to Prosauropoda by Huene (1929), Young (1942), Huene (1948), Haughton and Brink (1954), Romer (1956), Huene (1959), Romer (1966), Charig (1967), Swinton (1970), Kuhn (1971), Bonaparte (1971), Rozhdestvensky (1977); and to Sauropodomorpha by Benton et al. (2000).
It was synonymized subjectively with Anchisauridae by von Zittel (1911), Das-Gupta (1930), Kuhn (1966), Steel (1970), Benedetto (1973), Galton (1973), Heerden (1979), Benton (1979), Cooper (1981); it was synonymized subjectively with Zanclodontidae by Hay (1930).
It was assigned to Theropoda by Lydekker (1893), Huene (1908); to Saurischia by Arldt (1909), Huene (1909); to Pachypodosauria by Huene (1914), Huene (1914), Huene (1920), Nopcsa (1923); to Pachypodosauroidea by Nopcsa (1928); to Prosauropoda by Kuhn (1946), Parsch (1963); to Prosauropoda by Tatarinov (1964); to Plateosauria by Colbert (1964), Colbert (1970); to Palaeopoda by Reig (1970); to Plateosauria by Ellenberger et al. (1970); to Prosauropoda by Huene (1929), Young (1942), Huene (1948), Haughton and Brink (1954), Romer (1956), Huene (1959), Romer (1966), Charig (1967), Swinton (1970), Kuhn (1971), Bonaparte (1971), Rozhdestvensky (1977); and to Sauropodomorpha by Benton et al. (2000).
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