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Polyglyphanodon
Taxonomy
Polyglyphanodon was named by Gilmore (1940). It is the type genus of Polyglyphanodontidae.
It was assigned to Sauria by Gilmore (1940); to Teiidae by Carroll (1988) and Gao and Fox (1991); to Polyglyphanodontidae by Gilmore (1942), Sulimski (1975) and Longrich et al. (2012); and to Polyglyphanodontinae by Estes (1983), McCord (1998), Nydam (1999) and Xu et al. (2014).
It was assigned to Sauria by Gilmore (1940); to Teiidae by Carroll (1988) and Gao and Fox (1991); to Polyglyphanodontidae by Gilmore (1942), Sulimski (1975) and Longrich et al. (2012); and to Polyglyphanodontinae by Estes (1983), McCord (1998), Nydam (1999) and Xu et al. (2014).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1940 | Polyglyphanodon Gilmore pp. 1-2 fig. 1 |
| 1942 | Polyglyphanodon Gilmore p. 230 |
| 1975 | Polyglyphanodon Sulimski p. 78 |
| 1983 | Polyglyphanodon Estes |
| 1988 | Polyglyphanodon Carroll |
| 1991 | Polyglyphanodon Gao and Fox |
| 1998 | Polyglyphanodon McCord p. 289 fig. 3 |
| 1999 | Polyglyphanodon Nydam p. 307 |
| 2012 | Polyglyphanodon Longrich et al. |
| 2014 | Polyglyphanodon Xu et al. |
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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.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available