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Rhipidistia (disused)

Taxonomy
Rhipidistia was named by Cope (1887). It is extant.

It was reranked as the superorder Rhipidistia by Hay (1902); it was reranked as the infraclass Rhipidistia by Ahlberg (1991), Otto (1996), Dineley and Metcalf (1999) and Schultze (2000).

It was assigned to Rhipidopterygia by Cope (1887); to Teleostomi by Hay (1902); to Crossopterygii by Jordan (1963); to Crossopterygidae by Daly (1973); to Sarcopterygii by Otto (1996) and Dineley and Metcalf (1999); and to Sarcopterygii by Ahlberg (1991) and Schultze (2000).

Sister taxa
Panderichthyida

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1887Rhipidistia Cope p. 1017
1902Rhipidistia Hay p. 357
1963Rhipidistia Jordan p. 608
1973Rhipidistia Daly p. 567
1991Rhipidistia Ahlberg p. 280
1996Rhipidistia Otto p. 124
1999Rhipidistia Dineley and Metcalf p. 11
2000Rhipidistia Schultze

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
RankNameAuthor
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
infraclassRhipidistia()
infraclassRhipidistia()

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.

Infracl. Rhipidistia Cope 1887
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Invalid names: Osteolepidoidea [empty], Panderichthyida Vorobyeva 1989 [empty]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available