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Cyamodus orientalis

Reptilia - Placodontia - Cyamodontidae

Taxonomy
Cyamodus orientalis was named by Wang et al. (2019). It is not extant. Its type specimen is Zhejiang Museum of Natural History, M8820, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Guanling, Lower Xiaowa Formation fossil lagerstätte, which is in a Tuvalian deep-water shale/marl in the Xiaowa Formation of China.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
C. hildegardensis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2019Cyamodus orientalis Wang 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
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
suborderSauropterygia
orderPlacodontiaCope 1871
familyCyamodontidaeNopcsa 1923
genusCyamodusvon Meyer 1863
speciesorientalis

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.

†Cyamodus orientalis Wang et al. 2019
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available