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Cymatosaurus

Reptilia - Eosauropterygia

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1878Eurysaurus Gaudry
1894Cymatosaurus Fritsch
1902Proneusticosaurus Volz
1944Cymatosaurus erythreus Huene p. 193 figs. 1a-c
1965Cymatosaurus Young p. 355
1971Cymatosaurus Kuhn p. 18
1971Proneusticosaurus Kuhn p. 18
1971Cymatosaurus erythreus Kuhn p. 19
1988Cymatosaurus Carroll
1988Eurysaurus Carroll
1988Proneusticosaurus Carroll
1991Cymatosaurus Storrs p. 134
1994Cymatosaurus Rieppel p. 10 fig. 1
1997Cymatosaurus Rieppel pp. 3-4
1998Cymatosaurus Rieppel and Wernburg p. 578
2000Cymatosaurus Rieppel
2001Cymatosaurus O'Keefe p. 19 fig. 20
2002Cymatosaurus Sepkoski
2002Eurysaurus Sepkoski
2002Proneusticosaurus Sepkoski
2014Cymatosaurus Sander et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
suborderSauropterygia
orderEosauropterygia
suborderPistosauroideaBaur 1887
genusCymatosaurusFritsch 1894

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.

G. †Cymatosaurus Fritsch 1894
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Cymatosaurus erikae Maisch 2014
Cymatosaurus gracilis Schrammen 1899
Cymatosaurus latifrons Gürich 1884
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Invalid names: Cymatosaurus silesiacus Schrammen 1899 [objective synonym]
Cymatosaurus minor Rieppel and Wernburg 1998
Invalid names: Cymatosaurus erythreus Huene 1944 [nomen dubium], Eurysaurus Gaudry 1878 [synonym], Proneusticosaurus Volz 1902 [synonym]
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
O. Rieppel and R. Wernburg 1998"Eosauropterygians with a moderately depressed skull; snout constricted; postorbital skull distinctly elongated; occiput deeply concave; supraoccipital vertically oriented and in loose connection with the dermatocranium; distinctly reduced nasals that may or may not enter the external naris; frontals paired; posterolateral procceses of frontals closely approach the upper temporal fossa and may enter its anteromedial margin; parietals incompletely or completely fused; jugal enters posterior margin of the orbit and remains excluded from upper temporal arch; quadratojugal absent."