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Bauriidae

Therocephalia - Bauriidae

Taxonomy

Bauriidae was named by Watson (1911). It is not extant.

It was assigned to Bauriamorpha by Kuhn (1946); to Therocephalia by Haughton and Brink (1954) and Kemp (1982); to Baurioidea by Battail and Surkov (2000) and Tatarinov (2008); to Therocephalia by Carroll (1988) and Li and Sun (2008); to Bauriida by Ivakhnenko (2011); and to Bauriamorpha by Huttenlocker and Smith (2017).

Subtaxa

Antecosuchus (syn. Neotrirachodon), Bauria, Bauriinae, Dongusaurus, Dongusaurus schepetovi, Hazhenia, Microhelodon, Nothogomphodontinae, Sesamondontoides, Traversodontoides

Synonyms

Dongusaurus was named by Vjuschkov (1964). Its type is Dongusaurus schepetovi.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Ivakhnenko (2011).

It was assigned to Baurioidea by Battail and Surkov (2000); and to Bauriidae by Tatarinov (2008).
Dongusaurus schepetovi was named by Vjuschkov (1964). Its type specimen is PIN 952/1, a mandible (Right dentary), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Donguz I, PIN 952, which is in an Anisian fluvial-deltaic sandstone/conglomerate in the Donguz Formation of the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Dongusaurus.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Ivakhnenko (2011).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1911	Bauriidae Watson
1946	Bauridae Kuhn p. 57
1954	Bauriidae Haughton and Brink p. 8
1964	Dongusaurus Vjuschkov
1964	Dongusaurus schepetovi Vjuschkov
1982	Bauriidae Kemp p. 349
1988	Bauriidae Carroll
2000	Bauriidae Battail and Surkov
2000	Dongusaurus Battail and Surkov
2000	Dongusaurus schepetovi Battail and Surkov
2008	Bauriidae Li and Sun p. 407
2008	Bauriidae Tatarinov
2008	Dongusaurus Tatarinov
2008	Dongusaurus schepetovi Tatarinov
2011	Bauriidae Ivakhnenko
2017	Bauriidae Huttenlocker and Smith

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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
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()
order	Therocephalia
—	Eutherocephalia	Hopson and Barghusen 1986
superfamily	Baurioidea	Broom 1911
—	Bauriamorpha	(Watson)
family	Bauriidae	Watson 1911
family	Bauriidae	Watson 1911

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. †Bauriidae Watson 1911

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G. †Antecosuchus Tatarinov 1973

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†Antecosuchus boreus Tatarinov 1973

†Antecosuchus ochevi Tatarinov 1973

Invalid names: Neotrirachodon expectatus Tatarinov 2002 [synonym]

Invalid names: Neotrirachodon Tatarinov 2002 [synonym]

G. †Bauria Broom 1909

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†Bauria cynops Broom 1909

†Bauria robusta Brink 1965

G. †Hazhenia Sun and Hou 1981

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†Hazhenia concava Sun and Hou 1981

G. †Microhelodon Broom 1931

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†Microhelodon eumerus Broom 1931

Invalid names: Microgomphodon eumerus Seeley 1895 [replaced]

G. †Sesamondontoides Broom 1950

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†Sesamondontoides pauli Broom 1950

G. †Traversodontoides Young 1974

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†Traversodontoides wangwuensis Young 1974

Invalid names: Bauriinae Broom 1911 [empty], Dongusaurus Vjuschkov 1964 [nomen dubium], Dongusaurus schepetovi Vjuschkov 1964 [nomen dubium], Nothogomphodontinae Tatarinov 1974 [empty]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

terrestrialuc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Diet:

herbivoref

Comments:

as "Bauriamorpha"f

Created:

2009-01-03 20:36:43

Modified:

2009-01-03 22:36:43

Source: f = family, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade

References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Benton 1983

Age range: Anisian or 247.20000 to 242.00000 Ma

Collections (17 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Spathian - Anisian	251.3 - 242.0	South Africa (Eastern Cape)	Bauria cynops (20679)
Olenekian - Anisian	251.2 - 242.0	China (Shaanxi)	Hazhenia concava (98594)
Anisian	247.2 - 242.0	Russian Federation (Orenburg)	Antecosuchus ochevi (93156) Antecosuchus ochevi, Neotrirachodon expectatus (97409) Dongusaurus schepetovi (28850) Scalenodon boreus (97410)
Anisian	247.2 - 242.0	South Africa (Eastern Cape)	Bauria cynops (92312 101955 101957 101962 101963 105295) Bauria cynops, Sesamondontoides pauli (179589) Bauria robusta, Bauria cynops (99751) Microgomphodon eumerus (177025)
Anisian	247.2 - 242.0	China (Henan)	Traversodontoides wangwuensis (143312)
Anisian	247.2 - 242.0	South Africa (Free State)	Bauria cynops (144343)