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Lystrosaurus shichanggouensis

Anomodontia - Lystrosauridae

Taxonomy
Lystrosaurus shichanggouensis was named by Cheng (1986). Its type specimen is CAGS V 321, a partial skeleton (Skull and incomplete postcranial skeleton), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Shichanggou, Jimsar, which is in an Induan terrestrial siliciclastic in the Jiucaiyuan Formation of China.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1986Lystrosaurus shichanggouensis Cheng
2008Lystrosaurus shichanggouensis Li and Sun p. 392

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
orderAnomodontiaOwen 1859
orderDicynodontia()
—DicynodontoideaCluver and King 1983
familyLystrosauridae
genusLystrosaurusCope 1870
speciesshichanggouensisCheng 1986

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.

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Diagnosis
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