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Cyamodontida
Taxonomy
Cyamodontida was named by Nopsca (1923).
It was reranked as the infraorder Cyamodontida by Kuhn (1971); it was reranked as the superfamily Cyamodontida by Rieppel (2000).
It was assigned to Placodontia by Kuhn (1971); and to Cyamodontoidea by Rieppel (2000), Rieppel (2001), Miguel Chaves et al. (2018).
It was reranked as the infraorder Cyamodontida by Kuhn (1971); it was reranked as the superfamily Cyamodontida by Rieppel (2000).
It was assigned to Placodontia by Kuhn (1971); and to Cyamodontoidea by Rieppel (2000), Rieppel (2001), Miguel Chaves et al. (2018).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1923 | Cyamodontida Nopsca p. 72 |
| 1971 | Cyamodontida Kuhn p. 20 |
| 2000 | Cyamodontida Rieppel |
| 2001 | Cyamodontida Rieppel p. 72 |
| 2018 | Cyamodontida Miguel Chaves et al. |
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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.
Unr. †Cyamodontida Nopsca 1923
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Invalid names: Psephodermatidae Nopcsa 1923 [empty]
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| O. Rieppel 2001 | Jugal not extending far anteriorly along the ventral margin of the orbit; parietal with distinct anterolateral process entering between frontal and postfrontal; lateral margin of postfrontal deeply concave and angulated; paroccipial process with posteroventral tubercle at its distal end; exoccipitals in contact above the basioccipital condyle. |
Measurements
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| Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||