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Dinodontosaurus tener

Osteichthyes - Anomodontia

Taxonomy
Dicynodon tener was named by Huene (1935). Its type specimen is GPIT, uncatalogued, a partial skull ( skull fragments), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Cynodontier-Sanga (excavation 39), Chiniquá, which is in a Ladinian terrestrial horizon in the Santa Maria Formation of Brazil.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Lucas and Harris (1996); it was recombined as Dinodontosaurus tener by Cox (1965), Kammerer and Ordoñez (2021).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1935Dicynodon tener Huene p. 67 figs. 15-19
1936Diodontosaurus pedroanum Tupi-Caldas
1943Dinodontosaurus oliveirai Romer p. 475
1965Dinodontosaurus tener Cox
1996Dinodontosaurus oliveirai Lucas and Harris
2007Dinodontosaurus pedroanum Langer et al.
2021Dinodontosaurus tener Kammerer and Ordoñez pp. 26 - 29 figs. 23D–F, 24D–H, 25C, 26A, G

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
orderAnomodontiaOwen 1859
orderDicynodontia()
DicynodontoideaCluver and King 1983
Kannemeyeriiformes(Huene 1948)
genusDinodontosaurusRomer 1943
speciestener()

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.

Dinodontosaurus tener Huene 1935
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Invalid names: Dinodontosaurus oliveirai Romer 1943 [synonym], Diodontosaurus pedroanum Tupi-Caldas 1936 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available