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Cladeiodon

Reptilia - Teratosauridae

Taxonomy
Cladeiodon was named by Owen (1841).

It was corrected as Cladyodon by Quenstedt (1882) and Nopcsa (1901); it was synonymized subjectively with Zanclodon by Huene (1902); it was synonymized subjectively with Teratosaurus by Huene (1908) and Huene (1914); it was misspelled as Cladyodon by Gürich (1884), Zittel (1890), Huene (1923), Romer (1956), Tatarinov (1964), Romer (1966) and Steel (1970); it was considered a nomen nudum by Welles (1984).

It was assigned to Saurii by Meyer (1845); to Lacertinidae by d'Orbigny (1849); to Thecodontia by Owen (1859), Owen (1860) and Owen (1861); to Thecodonta by Haeckel (1866); to Lacertilia by Owen (1841), Owen (1842), Quenstedt (1852) and Quenstedt (1867); to Dinosauria by Huxley (1870); to Squamati by Quenstedt (1882); to Lacertilia by Gürich (1884); to Zanclodontidae by Zittel (1890); to Anchisauridae by Nopcsa (1901); to Carnosauria by Huene (1923); to Teratosauridae by Romer (1956) and Tatarinov (1964); to Theropoda by Romer (1966); and to Ornithosuchidae by Steel (1970).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1841Cladeiodon Owen p. 268 figs. Pl. 62A, fig. 4A-B
1842Cladyodon Owen p. 155
1845Cladyodon Meyer p. 282
1849Cladyodon d'Orbigny p. 208
1852Cladeiodon Quenstedt p. 109
1859Cladyodon Owen p. 141
1860Cladyodon Owen p. 251
1861Cladyodon Owen p. 278
1866Cladyodon Haeckel p. CXXXIV
1867Cladyodon Quenstedt p. 140
1870Cladeiodon Huxley p. 49
1882Cladyodon Quenstedt p. 178
1884Cladyodon Gürich p. 141
1890Cladyodon Zittel p. 721
1901Cladyodon Nopcsa p. 196
1923Cladeiodon Huene p. 456 fig. 3
1956Cladeiodon Romer p. 615
1964Cladeiodon Tatarinov p. 537
1966Cladeiodon Romer p. 369
1970Cladeiodon Steel p. 25

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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()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
—Pseudosuchia(Zittel 1890)
—SuchiaKrebs 1974
familyTeratosauridae
genusCladeiodon

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. †Cladeiodon Owen 1841
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Diagnosis
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