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Eryops
Taxonomy
Eryops was named by Cope (1877). It is not extant. Its type is Eryops megacephalus. It is the type genus of Eryopidae.
It was assigned to Temnospondyli by Gauthier et al. (1989); to Eryopoidea by Yates and Warren (2000); to Temnospondyli by Maddin et al. (2012); to Eryopidae by Cope (1884), Hay (1902), Watson (1919), Carroll (1988), Kissel and Lehman (2002) and Schoch (2013); and to Eryopinae by Schoch and Milner (2014).
It was assigned to Temnospondyli by Gauthier et al. (1989); to Eryopoidea by Yates and Warren (2000); to Temnospondyli by Maddin et al. (2012); to Eryopidae by Cope (1884), Hay (1902), Watson (1919), Carroll (1988), Kissel and Lehman (2002) and Schoch (2013); and to Eryopinae by Schoch and Milner (2014).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1877 | Eryops Cope pp. 188-191 |
| 1878 | Epicordylus Cope |
| 1878 | Rhachitomus Cope |
| 1884 | Eryops Cope p. 33 |
| 1902 | Eryops Hay p. 421 |
| 1919 | Eryops Watson p. 64 |
| 1988 | Eryops Carroll |
| 1989 | Eryops Gauthier et al. p. 349 |
| 2000 | Eryops Yates and Warren pp. 84, 86 |
| 2002 | Eryops Kissel and Lehman p. 531 |
| 2012 | Eryops Maddin et al. |
| 2013 | Eryops Schoch |
| 2014 | Eryops Schoch and Milner p. 88 |
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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. †Eryops Cope 1877
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†Eryops erythroliticus Cope 1878
†Eryops latus Case 1903
†Eryops megacephalus Cope 1877
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Invalid names: Anisodexis imbricarius Cope 1882 [synonym], Clepsydrops gigas Cope 1878 [synonym], Eryops willistoni Moodie 1911 [synonym], Rhachitomus valens Cope 1878 [synonym]
Invalid names: Epicordylus Cope 1878 [synonym], Rhachitomus Cope 1878 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available