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Anningia megalops

Varanopidae

Taxonomy
Anningia megalops was named by Broom (1927). Its type specimen is TMP N. 4024, a partial skull (current condition: skull table, right orbital and postorbital regions, posterior half of right mandible), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Bloukrans (Prince Albert District), which is in a Capitanian terrestrial horizon in the Abrahamskraal Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Anningia.

It was considered a nomen vanum by Reisz and Dilkes (1992).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
A. faberi

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1927Anningia megalops Broom p. 227
1940Anningia megalops Romer and Price pp. 18, 280 fig. 4
1986Anningia megalops Reisz p. 86
2018Anningia megalops Spindler et al.

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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
suborderEupelycosauria
familyVaranopidae()
—Neovaranopsia
subfamilyMesenosaurinae
—Afrothyra
genusAnningiaBroom 1927
speciesmegalopsBroom 1927

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.

†Anningia megalops Broom 1927
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Diagnosis
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