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Kahneria

Reptilia - Captorhinidae

Species
K. seltina (type species)

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1962Kahneria Olson p. 14 fig. 3
1966Kahneria Kuhn p. 14
1982Kahneria de Ricqlès and Taquet p. 8 figs. 23, 24
1988Kahneria Carroll

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
RankNameAuthor
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
familyCaptorhinidae
subfamilyMoradisaurinae
genusKahneria

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.

G. †Kahneria Olson 1962
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Kahneria seltina Olson 1962
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
E. C. Olson 1962A moderately large captorhinid reptile with multiple rows of palatal teeth and comparable rows in lower jaw. Tooth plates with straight outer margin and crescentic inner margin. Five rows of teeth in upper jaw and four and one-half in lower. Upper tooth plate extended anteriorly into a single series of compressed cones. Lower tooth plate passing anteriorly to short diastema in which lies one or two high, somewhat compressed, conical teeth. Diastema terminated anterior by single, large, conical tooth. Skull and jaws marked by surficial sculpture. Sculpture on lower jaw marked by long, longitudinal ridges and furrows. Sculpture on parietal-squamosal part of temporal region with roughly circular depressions and ridges.