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Elginiidae

Reptilia - Elginiidae

Taxonomy
Elginiidae was named by Cope (1896).

It was synonymized subjectively with Pareiasauridae by Kuhn (1946).

It was assigned to Cotylosauria by Cope (1896); to Pareiasauria by Kuhn (1966); to Elginioidea by Ivakhnenko (2008); and to Pareiasauria by Liu and Bever (2018).

Subtaxa
Elginia, Obirkovia

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1896Elginiidae Cope p. 440
1966Elginiidae Kuhn p. 18
2008Elginiidae Ivakhnenko p. 74
2018Elginiidae Liu and Bever

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassParareptiliaLawrence 1868
—Procolophonomorpha()
—Procolophonia()
—Hallucicrania
superfamilyPareiasauroideaNopsca 1928
—Pareiasauria()
familyElginiidae
familyElginiidae

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.

Fm. †Elginiidae Cope 1896
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G. †Elginia Newton 1893
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†Elginia mirabilis Newton 1893
†Elginia wuyongae Liu and Bever 2018
G. †Obirkovia Bulanov and Yashina 2005
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†Obirkovia gladiator Bulanov and Yashina 2005
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available