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Homoeosauridae

Reptilia - Homoeosauridae

Taxonomy
Homeosauridae was named by Gervais (1852). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Sphenodontidae by Cocude-Michel (1963); it was reranked as the subfamily Homeosaurinae by Kuhn (1966); it was misspelled as Homoesauridae by Osborn (1903); it was corrected as Homoeosauridae by Boulenger (1893), Jaekel (1910), Kuhn (1946) and Herrera-Flores et al. (2018).

It was assigned to Rhynchocephalia by Boulenger (1893); to Rhynchocephalia by Osborn (1903); to Homoeosauri by Jaekel (1910); to Sphenodontina by Kuhn (1946); to Sphenodontidae by Kuhn (1966); and to Neosphenodontia by Herrera-Flores et al. (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1893Homoeosauridae Boulenger p. 210
1903Homoesauridae Osborn p. 467
1910Homoeosauridae Jaekel p. 333
1946Homoeosauridae Kuhn p. 62
1966Homeosaurinae Kuhn p. 37
2018Homoeosauridae Herrera-Flores et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
RankNameAuthor
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
Eosuchia()
Neodiapsida
SauriaGauthier 1984
Lepidosauromorpha(Benton 1983)
superorderLepidosauria()
Sphenodontia()
infraorderEusphenodontia
Neosphenodontia
familyHomoeosauridae()
familyHomoeosauridae()

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. Homoeosauridae Gervais 1852
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G. †Homoeosaurus Meyer 1850
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Homoeosaurus maximiliani von Meyer 1847
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Invalid names: Homoeosaurus jourdani Lortet 1892 [synonym]
Homoeosaurus parvipes Cocude-Michel 1963
Homoeosaurus rhodani Lortet 1892
Homoeosaurus solnhofensis Cocude-Michel 1963
Homoeosaurus struckmanni Broili 1925
Invalid names: Stelliosaurus Jourdan 1862 [synonym]
G. †Ischnosaurus Thiollière 1856
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Ischnosaurus gervaisii Thiollière 1856
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available