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Diictodon

Anomodontia

Taxonomy

Diictodon was named by Broom (1913).

It was assigned to Diictodontinae by King (1988); to Diictodontidae by Carroll (1988) and Li and Sun (2008); and to Pylaecephalidae by Kammerer and Angielczyk (2009) and Angielczyk et al. (2014).

Species

D. feliceps (syn. D. grossharthi, D. tienshanensis, D. grimbeeki, D. galeops, Dicynodon gamkaensis, D. rubidgei, D. psittacops, D. jouberti, D. palustris, D. ictidops, Dicynodon nanus, D. macrorhynchus, D. testudirostris, D. vanderhorsti, Dicynodon antjiesfonteinensis, D. sesoma, D. sollasi, Dicynodon parvidens, Dicynodon broomi, D. haughtonianus)

Synonyms

Anomodon was named by Keyser (1975) [non Le Conte (1848)]. It is not extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Diictodon by Kammerer et al. (2011).

It was assigned to Diictodontidae by Carroll (1988).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1913	Diictodon Broom
1975	Anomodon Keyser p. 74
1988	Anomodon Carroll
1988	Diictodon Carroll
1988	Diictodon King
2008	Diictodon Li and Sun p. 382
2009	Diictodon Kammerer and Angielczyk
2014	Diictodon Angielczyk et al.

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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
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()
order	Anomodontia	Owen 1859
order	Dicynodontia	()
—	Pylaecephalidae	()
genus	Diictodon

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. †Diictodon Broom 1913

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†Diictodon feliceps Owen 1876

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Invalid names: Dicynodon broomi Broili and Schröder 1937 [synonym], Dicynodon gamkaensis Broom 1937 [synonym], Dicynodon nanus Broom 1936 [synonym], Dicynodon parvidens Owen 1876 [synonym], Diictodon galeops Broom 1913 [synonym], Diictodon grimbeeki Broom 1935 [synonym], Diictodon grossharthi Broili and Schröder 1937 [synonym], Diictodon haughtonianus Huene 1931 [synonym], Diictodon ictidops Broom 1913 [synonym], Diictodon jouberti Broom 1905 [synonym], Diictodon macrorhynchus Broom 1921 [synonym], Diictodon palustris Broom 1913 [synonym], Diictodon psittacops Broom 1912 [synonym], Diictodon rubidgei Broom 1932 [synonym], Diictodon sesoma Watson 1960 [synonym], Diictodon sollasi Broom 1921 [synonym], Diictodon testudirostris Broom and Haughton 1913 [synonym], Diictodon tienshanensis Sun 1973 [synonym], Diictodon vanderhorsti Toerien 1953 [synonym]

Invalid names: Anomodon Keyser 1975 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available