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Cyamodus muensteri

Reptilia - Placodontia - Cyamodontidae

Taxonomy
Placodus muensteri was named by Agassiz (1834). Its type specimen is BSP AS VII 1210, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Bindlacher Berg, which is in an Illyrian marine horizon in the Meissner Formation of Germany. It is the type species of Cyamodus.

It was synonymized subjectively with Cyamodus rostratus by Kuhn (1969) and Kuhn (1971); it was recombined as Cyamodus muensteri by Rieppel (2001).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1834Placodus muensteri Agassiz p. 17 figs. Plate 71, figs 1-5
1839Placodus muensteri Agassiz figs. Plate 71, figs 1-5
1843Placodus munsteri Agassiz p. 220
1859Placodus laticeps Owen
1861Placodus laticeps Owen p. 237
1869Placodus muensteri Seeley p. 135
1934Cyamodus laticeps Swinton p. 63
1999Cyamodus laticeps Rieppel and Hagdorn p. 337
2001Cyamodus muensteri Rieppel pp. 74-75

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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
orderPlacodontiaCope 1871
familyCyamodontidaeNopcsa 1923
genusCyamodusvon Meyer 1863
speciesmuensteri()

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.

Cyamodus muensteri Agassiz 1834
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Invalid names: Cyamodus laticeps Owen 1859 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available