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Dicynodontoides recurvidens

Anomodontia

Taxonomy
Dicynodon recurvidens was named by Owen (1876). Its type specimen is BMNH 47091, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Fort Beaufort, which is in a Wuchiapingian/Changhsingian terrestrial lime mudstone in South Africa.

It was recombined as Kingoria recurvidens by Cluver and Hotton (1981) and King (1988); it was synonymized subjectively with Dicynodontoides parringtoni by Brink (1986); it was recombined as Dicynodontoides recurvidens by Angielczyk et al. (2009) and Kammerer et al. (2011).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1876Dicynodon recurvidens Owen
1901Udenodon gracilis Broom
1913Dicynodon gracilis Broom
1940Dicynodontoides parringtoni Broom
1948Dicynodon duvenhagei Broom
1948Dicynodon howardi Broom
1950Dicynodon clarencei Broom
1981Kingoria duvenhagei Cluver and Hotton
1981Kingoria gracilis Cluver and Hotton
1981Kingoria howardi Cluver and Hotton
1981Kingoria recurvidens Cluver and Hotton
1988Dicynodon clarencei King
1988Kingoria duvenhagei King
1988Kingoria gracilis King
1988Kingoria howardi King
1988Kingoria recurvidens King
2009Dicynodontoides recurvidens Angielczyk et al.
2011Dicynodontoides recurvidens Kammerer et al.

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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()
superfamilyEmydopoideavan Hoepen 1934
Kingoriidae()
genusDicynodontoides
speciesrecurvidens()

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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Invalid names: Dicynodon clarencei Broom 1950 [synonym], Dicynodontoides parringtoni Broom 1940 [synonym], Kingoria duvenhagei Broom 1948 [synonym], Kingoria gracilis Broom 1901 [synonym], Kingoria howardi Broom 1948 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available