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Edaphosauria (disused)
Taxonomy
Edaphosauria was named by Cope (1882).
It was replaced with Edaphosauriformes by Hay (1930); it was reranked as the order Edaphosauria by Roxo (1937); it was reranked as the superfamily Edaphosauria by Kuhn (1946).
It was assigned to Theromorpha by Roxo (1937); to Pelycosauria by Kuhn (1946); to Pelycosauria by Haughton and Brink (1954); and to Pelycosauria by Romer and Price (1940), Olson and Beerbower (1953), Huene (1954), Lewis and Vaughn (1965), Kuhn (1966), Olson (1966), Haubold (1971), Daly (1973) and Kemp (1982).
It was replaced with Edaphosauriformes by Hay (1930); it was reranked as the order Edaphosauria by Roxo (1937); it was reranked as the superfamily Edaphosauria by Kuhn (1946).
It was assigned to Theromorpha by Roxo (1937); to Pelycosauria by Kuhn (1946); to Pelycosauria by Haughton and Brink (1954); and to Pelycosauria by Romer and Price (1940), Olson and Beerbower (1953), Huene (1954), Lewis and Vaughn (1965), Kuhn (1966), Olson (1966), Haubold (1971), Daly (1973) and Kemp (1982).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1882 | Edaphosauria Cope |
| 1937 | Edaphosauria Roxo p. 43 |
| 1940 | Edaphosauria Romer and Price pp. 19, 366 |
| 1946 | Edaphosauria Kuhn p. 56 |
| 1953 | Edaphosauria Olson and Beerbower p. 399 |
| 1954 | Edaphosauria Haughton and Brink p. 5 |
| 1954 | Edaphosauria Huene p. 28 |
| 1965 | Edaphosauria Lewis and Vaughn p. C34 |
| 1966 | Edaphosauria Kuhn p. 122 |
| 1966 | Edaphosauria Olson p. 302 |
| 1971 | Edaphosauria Haubold p. 34 |
| 1973 | Edaphosauria Daly p. 587 |
| 1982 | Edaphosauria Kemp p. 348 |
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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.
Subor. †Edaphosauria Cope 1882
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Invalid names: Glaucosauridae Huene 1925 [empty], Lupeosauridae Romer and Price 1940 [empty], Nitosauridae Romer and Price 1940 [empty]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Collections
No collection or age range data are available