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Mormosauridae (disused)

Mormosauridae

Taxonomy
Mormosauridae was named by Boonstra (1936).

It was assigned to Dinocephalia by Kuhn (1946); and to Tapinocephalia by Haughton and Brink (1954).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1936Mormosauridae Boonstra
1946Mormosauridae Kuhn p. 57
1954Mormosauridae Haughton and Brink p. 5

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
RankNameAuthor
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
—Eutherapsida
suborderDinocephalia
familyMormosauridaeBoonstra 1936
familyMormosauridaeBoonstra 1936

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. †Mormosauridae Boonstra 1936
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Diagnosis
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