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Dimorphodontidae

Reptilia - Dimorphodontidae

Taxonomy
Dimorphodontidae was named by Seeley (1870). It is not extant. It was considered monophyletic by Clark et al. (1998).

It was reranked as the subfamily Dimorphodontinae by Kuhn (1946).

It was assigned to Ornithosauria by Cope (1871) and Cope (1875); to Rhamphorhynchidae by Kuhn (1946); to Rhamphorhynchoidea by Delair (1958), Young (1964), Kuhn (1966) and Carroll (1988); to Pterosauria by Bakker (1986) and Clark et al. (1998); to Macronychoptera by Unwin (2003); and to Pterosauria by Britt et al. (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1870Dimorphodontidae Seeley
1871Dimorphodontidae Cope p. 234
1875Dimorphodontidae Cope p. 12
1946Dimorphodontinae Kuhn p. 67
1958Dimorphodontidae Delair p. 68
1964Dimorphodontidae Young p. 251
1966Dimorphodontidae Kuhn p. 109
1986Dimorphodontidae Bakker p. 460
1988Dimorphodontidae Carroll
1998Dimorphodontidae Clark et al. p. 886
2003Dimorphodontidae Unwin p. 144
2018Dimorphodontidae Britt 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()
Amniota
RankNameAuthor
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
PterosauromorphaPadian 1997
Pterosauria(Kaup 1834)
Macronychoptera
familyDimorphodontidaeSeeley 1870
familyDimorphodontidaeSeeley 1870

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. †Dimorphodontidae Seeley 1870
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G. †Caelestiventus Britt et al. 2018
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Caelestiventus hanseni Britt et al. 2018
G. †Dimorphodon Owen 1859
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Dimorphodon banthensis Theodori 1831
Dimorphodon macronyx Buckland 1829
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Invalid names: Pterodactylus marderi Owen 1874 [synonym]
Dimorphodon weintraubi Clark et al. 1998
G. †Peteinosaurus Wild 1978
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available