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Trimerorhachidae

Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Trimerorhachidae

Taxonomy
Trimerorhachidae was named by Cope (1882). It is not extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Archegosauridae by Hay (1902); it was misspelled as Trimerorachidae by Watson (1919), Kuhn (1946), Daly (1973), Carroll (1988), Yates and Warren (2000) and Schoch and Milner (2014).

It was assigned to Rachitomi by Watson (1919); to Rhachitomi by Kuhn (1946); to Trimerorhachoidea by Daly (1973) and Carroll (1988); and to Dvinosauria by Yates and Warren (2000) and Schoch and Milner (2014).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1882Trimerorhachidae Cope
1919Trimerorachidae Watson p. 66
1946Trimerorhachidae Kuhn p. 52
1973Trimerorhachidae Daly p. 568
1988Trimerorhachidae Carroll
2000Trimerorhachidae Yates and Warren pp. 84, 89 fig. 1
2014Trimerorhachidae Schoch and Milner p. 36

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
RankNameAuthor
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
classAmphibia
orderTemnospondyli()
Eutemnospondyli
Rhachitomi()
Dvinosauria
familyTrimerorhachidaeCope 1882
familyTrimerorhachidaeCope 1882

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.

Fm. †Trimerorhachidae Cope 1882
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G. †Lafonius Berman 1973
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Lafonius lehmani Berman 1973
G. †Nannospondylus Olson 1965
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Invalid names: Nannospondylus stewarti Olson 1965 [nomen dubium]
G. †Procuhy Cisneros et al. 2015
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Procuhy nazariensis Cisneros et al. 2015
G. †Trimerorhachis Cope 1878
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Trimerorhachis greggi Milner and Schoch 2013
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Invalid names: Trimerorhachis alleni Case 1910 [synonym], Trimerorhachis bilobatus Cope 1883 [synonym], Trimerorhachis medius Broom 1913 [synonym]
Trimerorhachis mesops Cope 1896
Trimerorhachis rogersi Olson 1955
Trimerorhachis sandovalensis Berman and Reisz 1980
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available