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Yunnanosauridae (disused)

Reptilia - Yunnanosauridae

Taxonomy
Yunnanosauridae was named by Young (1942).

It was synonymized subjectively with Anchisauridae by Steel (1970) and Cooper (1981); it was synonymized subjectively with Plateosauridae by Heerden (1979).

It was assigned to Prosauropoda by Young (1942) and Lü et al. (2007).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1942Yunnanosauridae Young p. 99
2007Yunnanosauridae Lü et al. p. 1

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
RankNameAuthor
Romeriida
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauriformes
Dinosauria()
Saurischia()
Eusaurischia
Sauropodomorpha(Huene 1932)
Bagualosauria
Plateosauria()
Anchisauria
Prosauropoda()
familyYunnanosauridae
familyYunnanosauridae

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. †Yunnanosauridae Young 1942
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available