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Saniwa

Reptilia

Taxonomy

Saniwa was named by Leidy (1870). It is not extant. Its type is Saniwa ensidens. It is the type genus of Saniwinae.

It was assigned to Lacertilia by Leidy (1873); to Anguidae by Hay (1902); to Megalaninae by Nopcsa (1928); to Varanidae by Hecht (1959), Estes (1983), Carroll (1988), Alifanov (1993), Clos (1995) and Smith (2006); and to Saniwinae by Hay (1930), McDowell and Bogert (1954), Brattstrom (1955), Stritzke (1983) and Rieppel and Grande (2007).

Species

S. edura, S. ensidens (syn. Thinosaurus crassus, Thinosaurus paucidens, Thinosaurus leptodus, Thinosaurus agilis, S. major, S. brooksi, Thinosaurus grandis) (type species), S. orsmaelensis

Synonyms

Thinosaurus was named by Marsh (1872). Its type is Tinosaurus stenodon.

It was misspelled as Tinosaurus by Estes (1983); it was synonymized subjectively with Saniwa by Gilmore (1922), Hay (1930), Gilmore (1943), Hecht (1959), Carroll (1988), Rieppel and Grande (2007) and Smith et al. (2018).

It was assigned to Lacertilia by Cope (1873); to Varanidae by Zittel (1890), Hoffmann (1890), Boulenger (1891) and Hay (1902); and to Agamidae by Estes (1983).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1870	Saniwa Leidy p. 124
1872	Thinosaurus Marsh p. 299
1873	Thinosaurus Cope p. 632
1873	Saniva Leidy p. 181–182
1890	Thinosaurus Hoffmann
1890	Thinosaurus Zittel
1891	Thinosaurus Boulenger
1902	Saniwa Hay p. 475
1902	Thinosaurus Hay p. 476
1928	Saniva Nopcsa p. 177
1930	Saniwa Hay p. 251
1954	Saniwa McDowell and Bogert p. 132
1955	Saniwa Brattstrom p. 145
1959	Saniwa Hecht p. 135
1983	Saniwa Estes
1983	Tinosaurus Estes
1983	Saniwa Stritzke
1988	Saniwa Carroll
1993	Saniwa Alifanov p. 10
1995	Saniwa Clos p. 263
2006	Saniwa Smith p. 6
2007	Saniwa Rieppel and Grande p. 644

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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
—	Reptiliomorpha

Rank	Name	Author
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
—	Squamata	()
—	Anguimorpha	(Fürbringer 1900)
—	Anguiformes	(Bonaparte 1831)
infraorder	Platynota	Baur 1890
superfamily	Varanoidea	Gray 1827
subfamily	Saniwinae	Camp 1923
genus	Saniwa

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. †Saniwa Leidy 1870

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†Saniwa edura Smith 2006

†Saniwa ensidens Leidy 1870

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Invalid names: Saniwa brooksi Brattstrom 1955 [synonym], Saniwa major Leidy 1873 [synonym], Thinosaurus agilis Marsh 1872 [synonym], Thinosaurus crassus Marsh 1872 [synonym], Thinosaurus grandis Marsh 1872 [synonym], Thinosaurus leptodus Marsh 1872 [synonym], Thinosaurus paucidens Marsh 1872 [synonym]

†Saniwa orsmaelensis Dollo 1923

Invalid names: Thinosaurus Marsh 1872 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available