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Lystrosaurus hedini

Anomodontia - Lystrosauridae

Taxonomy
Lystrosaurus hedini was named by Young (1935). Its type specimen is IVPP RV 35012, a skeleton (Nearly complete skeleton), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Fuyuan, S. Santai, Talungkou, which is in an Induan terrestrial claystone in the Jiucaiyuan Formation of China.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1935Lystrosaurus hedini Young
1973Lystrosaurus hedini Sun p. 65
2008Lystrosaurus hedini Li and Sun p. 390

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
orderAnomodontiaOwen 1859
orderDicynodontia()
—DicynodontoideaCluver and King 1983
familyLystrosauridae
genusLystrosaurusCope 1870
specieshedini

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.

†Lystrosaurus hedini Young 1935
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available