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Ophiacodontia (disused)
Taxonomy
Ophiacodontia was named by Romer and Price (1940). It is not extant.
It was reranked as the superfamily Ophiacodontia by Kuhn (1946); it was reranked as the order Ophiacodontia by Ivakhnenko (2008).
It was assigned to Pelycosauria by Kuhn (1946); to Pelycosauria by Romer and Price (1940), Huene (1954), Lewis and Vaughn (1965), Kuhn (1966), Olson (1966) and Haubold (1971); and to Ophiacomorpha by Ivakhnenko (2008).
It was reranked as the superfamily Ophiacodontia by Kuhn (1946); it was reranked as the order Ophiacodontia by Ivakhnenko (2008).
It was assigned to Pelycosauria by Kuhn (1946); to Pelycosauria by Romer and Price (1940), Huene (1954), Lewis and Vaughn (1965), Kuhn (1966), Olson (1966) and Haubold (1971); and to Ophiacomorpha by Ivakhnenko (2008).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1940 | Ophiacodontia Romer and Price pp. 18, 196 |
| 1946 | Ophiacodontia Kuhn p. 56 |
| 1954 | Ophiacodontia Huene p. 28 |
| 1965 | Ophiacodontia Lewis and Vaughn p. C26 |
| 1966 | Ophiacodontia Kuhn p. 118 |
| 1966 | Ophiacodontia Olson p. 301 |
| 1971 | Ophiacodontia Haubold p. 33 |
| 2008 | Ophiacodontia Ivakhnenko |
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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.
Subor. †Ophiacodontia Romer and Price 1940
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Invalid names: Tetraceratopsidae Kuhn 1964 [empty], Varanopoidea Romer and Price 1940 [empty]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||