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Australosyodon nyaphuli

Anteosauridae

Taxonomy
Australosyodon nyaphuli was named by Rubidge (1994). Its type specimen is NMQR 3152, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Tuinkraal, which is in a Wordian terrestrial mudstone/sandstone in the Abrahamskraal Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Australosyodon.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1994Australosyodon nyaphuli Rubidge p. 580 figs. 1-8
2011Australosyodon nyaphuli Kammerer

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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()
—Eutherapsida
suborderDinocephalia
superfamilyAnteosauriaBoonstra 1962
familyAnteosauridaeBoonstra 1954
subfamilySyodontinaeIvachnenko 1994
genusAustralosyodon
speciesnyaphuli

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.

†Australosyodon nyaphuli Rubidge 1994
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available