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Seymouriidae

Seymouriidae

Taxonomy
Seymouriidae was named by Williston (1911). It is the type family of Seymourioidea.

It was synonymized subjectively with Conodectidae by Hay (1930).

It was assigned to Pareiasauria by Case (1911); to Seymouriamorpha by Kuhn (1946); to Seymourioidea by Carroll et al. (1972) and Bulanov (2003); and to Seymouriamorpha by Lewis and Vaughn (1965), Vaughn (1966), Carroll (1988) and Martens et al. (2005).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1911Seymouridae Case pp. 9, 50
1911Seymouriidae Williston
1946Seymouriidae Kuhn p. 55
1965Seymouriidae Lewis and Vaughn p. C12
1966Seymouriidae Vaughn p. 604
1972Seymouriidae Carroll et al. p. 21
1988Seymouriidae Carroll
2003Seymouriidae Bulanov
2005Seymouridae Martens et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
RankNameAuthor
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
suborderSeymouriamorphaWatson 1917
superfamilySeymourioideaTatarinov 1971
familySeymouriidaeWilliston 1911
familySeymouriidaeWilliston 1911

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. †Seymouriidae Williston 1911
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G. †Rhinosauriscus Kuhn 1963
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Rhinosauriscus jasykovii Fischer 1847
G. †Seymouria Broili 1904
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Seymouria baylorensis Broili 1904
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Invalid names: Desmospondylus anomalus Williston 1910 [synonym]
Seymouria grandis Olson 1979
Seymouria sanjuanensis Vaughn 1966
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: brackish, freshwater, terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:15:19
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:15:19
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Artinskian to the top of the Kungurian or 290.10000 to 272.30000 Ma

Collections (17 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Wolfcampian298.9 - 286.0USA (Colorado) Seymouria sp. (85479)
Wolfcampian298.9 - 286.0USA (New Mexico) Seymouria sanjuanensis (218165)
Artinskian290.1 - 279.3Germany (Thuringia) Seymouria sanjuanensis (80112)
Artinskian290.1 - 279.3USA (Utah) Seymouria sanjuanensis (218163 218164)
Artinskian290.1 - 279.3USA (Oklahoma) Seymouria baylorensis (79402) Seymouria sp. (67862)
Kungurian279.3 - 272.3USA (Texas) Seymouria baylorensis (28264) Seymouria baylorensis, Desmospondylus anomalus (28256) Seymouria grandis (178738) Seymouria sp. (22715 28266 28267 28272 67735)
Kungurian279.3 - 272.3USA (Oklahoma) Seymouria grandis (181086 181087)