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Thecodontosauridae
Taxonomy
Thecodontosauridae was named by Lydekker (1890). Its type is Thecodontosaurus.
It was synonymized subjectively with Anchisauridae by von Zittel (1911), Das-Gupta (1930), Kuhn (1966), Steel (1970), Benedetto (1973), Galton (1973), Heerden (1979), Benton (1979) and Cooper (1981); it was synonymized subjectively with Zanclodontidae by Hay (1930).
It was assigned to Theropoda by Lydekker (1893) and Huene (1908); to Saurischia by Arldt (1909) and Huene (1909); to Pachypodosauria by Huene (1914), Huene (1914), Huene (1920) and Nopcsa (1923); to Pachypodosauroidea by Nopcsa (1928); to Prosauropoda by Kuhn (1946) and Parsch (1963); to Prosauropoda by Tatarinov (1964); to Plateosauria by Ellenberger et al. (1970); to Plateosauria by Colbert (1964) and Colbert (1970); to Palaeopoda by Reig (1970); to Prosauropoda by Huene (1929), Young (1942), Huene (1948), Haughton and Brink (1954), Romer (1956), Huene (1959), Romer (1966), Charig (1967), Swinton (1970), Kuhn (1971), Bonaparte (1971) and Rozhdestvensky (1977); and to Sauropodomorpha by Benton et al. (2000).
It was synonymized subjectively with Anchisauridae by von Zittel (1911), Das-Gupta (1930), Kuhn (1966), Steel (1970), Benedetto (1973), Galton (1973), Heerden (1979), Benton (1979) and Cooper (1981); it was synonymized subjectively with Zanclodontidae by Hay (1930).
It was assigned to Theropoda by Lydekker (1893) and Huene (1908); to Saurischia by Arldt (1909) and Huene (1909); to Pachypodosauria by Huene (1914), Huene (1914), Huene (1920) and Nopcsa (1923); to Pachypodosauroidea by Nopcsa (1928); to Prosauropoda by Kuhn (1946) and Parsch (1963); to Prosauropoda by Tatarinov (1964); to Plateosauria by Ellenberger et al. (1970); to Plateosauria by Colbert (1964) and Colbert (1970); to Palaeopoda by Reig (1970); to Prosauropoda by Huene (1929), Young (1942), Huene (1948), Haughton and Brink (1954), Romer (1956), Huene (1959), Romer (1966), Charig (1967), Swinton (1970), Kuhn (1971), Bonaparte (1971) and Rozhdestvensky (1977); and to Sauropodomorpha by Benton et al. (2000).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1890 | Thecodontosauridae Lydekker |
1893 | Thecodontosauridae Lydekker pp. 285-286 |
1908 | Thecodontosauridae Huene p. 307 |
1909 | Thecodontosauridae Arldt p. 261 |
1909 | Thecodontosauridae Huene p. 13 |
1914 | Thecodontosauridae Huene p. 12 |
1920 | Thecodontosauridae Huene p. 162 |
1923 | Thecodontosauridae Nopcsa p. 125 |
1928 | Thecodontosauridae Nopcsa p. 182 |
1929 | Thecodontosauridae Huene p. 271 |
1942 | Thecodontosauridae Young p. 99 |
1946 | Thecodontosauridae Kuhn p. 65 |
1948 | Thecodontosauridae Huene p. 90 |
1954 | Thecodontosauridae Haughton and Brink p. 4 |
1956 | Thecodontosauridae Romer p. 617 |
1959 | Thecodontosauridae Huene p. 120 |
1963 | Thecodontosauridae Parsch p. 4 |
1964 | Thecodontosauridae Colbert p. 20 fig. 6 |
1964 | Thecodontosauridae Tatarinov p. 541 |
1966 | Thecodontosauridae Romer p. 370 |
1967 | Thecodontosauridae Charig p. 712 |
1970 | Thecodontosauridae Colbert p. 27 |
1970 | Thecodontosauridae Ellenberger et al. p. 158 |
1970 | Thecodontosauridae Reig p. 276 |
1970 | Thecodontosauridae Swinton p. 161 |
1971 | Thecodontosauridae Bonaparte p. 160 |
1971 | Thecodontosauridae Kuhn p. 17 |
1977 | Thecodontosauridae Rozhdestvensky p. 112 |
2000 | Thecodontosauridae Benton et al. p. 81 |
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Fm. †Thecodontosauridae Lydekker 1890
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G. †Pseudotrisauropus Ellenberger 1970
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†Pseudotrisauropus dieterleni Ellenberger 1970
†Pseudotrisauropus humilis Ellenberger 1970
†Pseudotrisauropus maserui Ellenberger 1970
†Pseudotrisauropus minusculus Ellenberger 1970
†Pseudotrisauropus molekoi Ellenberger 1970
†Pseudotrisauropus subengensis Ellenberger 1970
Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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B. F. Nopcsa 1928 | base of skull broad; condyle directed downward; bipedal animals | |
F. v. Huene 1948 | Semiquadrupedal animals, of no large size. |