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Zatracheidae

Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Zatracheidae

Taxonomy
Zatracheidae was named by Williston (1910). It is not extant. It was considered monophyletic by Schoch (2013).

It was corrected as Zatrachydidae by Kuhn (1946), Paton (1975), Boy (1989), Boy (1990) and Yates and Warren (2000).

It was assigned to Rachitomi by Watson (1919); to Rhachitomi by Kuhn (1946); to Temnospondyli by Boy (1990); to Eryopoidea by Paton (1975), Carroll (1988), Boy (1989) and Yates and Warren (2000); and to Rhachitomi by Schoch (2013) and Schoch and Milner (2014).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1910Zatracheidae Williston
1919Zatrachydae Watson p. 66
1946Acanthostomatidae Kuhn p. 52
1946Zatrachydidae Kuhn p. 52
1975Zatrachydidae Paton
1988Zatracheidae Carroll
1989Zatrachydidae Boy pp. 133, 135
1990Zatrachydidae Boy p. 309
2000Zatrachydidae Yates and Warren pp. 84, 87 fig. 1
2013Zatracheidae Schoch
2014Zatracheidae Schoch and Milner

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
RankNameAuthor
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
classAmphibia
orderTemnospondyli()
Eutemnospondyli
Rhachitomi()
familyZatracheidaeWilliston 1910
familyZatracheidaeWilliston 1910

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. †Zatracheidae Williston 1910
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G. †Acanthostomatops Kuhn 1961
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Acanthostomatops vorax Credner 1883
Invalid names: Acanthostoma Credner 1883 [synonym]
G. †Chemnitzion Werneburg et al. 2022
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Chemnitzion richteri Werneburg et al. 2022
G. †Dasyceps Huxley 1859
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Dasyceps bucklandi Lloyd 1850
G. †Zatrachys Cope 1878
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Zatrachys apicalis Cope 1881
Zatrachys crucifer Case 1903
Zatrachys serratus Cope 1878
Invalid names: Acanthostomatidae Steen [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available