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Haptodontinae (disused)
Taxonomy
Haptodontinae was named by Romer and Price (1940). It is not extant. It was considered paraphyletic by Fröbisch et al. (2011).
It was reranked as the family Haptodontidae by Hopson (1991).
It was assigned to Sphenacodontidae by Romer and Price (1940), Kuhn (1946), Lewis and Vaughn (1965), Kuhn (1966), Currie (1977), Kemp (1982) and Reisz (1986); to Sphenacodontia by Hopson (1991); and to Sphenacodontia by Fröbisch et al. (2011).
It was reranked as the family Haptodontidae by Hopson (1991).
It was assigned to Sphenacodontidae by Romer and Price (1940), Kuhn (1946), Lewis and Vaughn (1965), Kuhn (1966), Currie (1977), Kemp (1982) and Reisz (1986); to Sphenacodontia by Hopson (1991); and to Sphenacodontia by Fröbisch et al. (2011).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1940 | Haptodontinae Romer and Price pp. 19, 297 |
| 1946 | Haptodontinae Kuhn p. 56 |
| 1965 | Haptodontinae Lewis and Vaughn p. C27 |
| 1966 | Haptodontinae Kuhn p. 122 |
| 1977 | Haptodontinae Currie p. 929 |
| 1982 | Haptodontinae Kemp p. 348 |
| 1986 | Haptodontinae Reisz p. 74 |
| 1991 | Haptodontidae Hopson p. 646 |
| 2011 | Haptodontinae Fröbisch 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.
Subfm. †Haptodontinae Romer and Price 1940
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available