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Barasaurus

Reptilia - Owenettidae

Taxonomy

Barasaurus was named by Piveteau (1955). Its type is Barasaurus besairiei.

It was assigned to Procolophonidae by Piveteau (1955); to Nyctiphruretidae by Carroll (1988); and to Owenettidae by Lee (1995), Lee (1997), Modesto and Damiani (2007) and Säilä (2008).

Species

B. besairiei (type species)

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1955	Barasaurus Piveteau p. 1326
1988	Barasaurus Carroll
1995	Barasaurus Lee pp. 508, 512 fig. 22
1997	Barasaurus Lee pp. 256, 260 fig. 22
2007	Barasaurus Modesto and Damiani p. 347 fig. 8
2008	Barasaurus Säilä p. 1202 fig. 4

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda

Rank	Name	Author
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
subclass	Parareptilia	Lawrence 1868
superfamily	Procolophonoidea
family	Owenettidae
genus	Barasaurus

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. †Barasaurus Piveteau 1955

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†Barasaurus besairiei Piveteau 1955

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available