†suborder Mesosauria Seeley 1892 (amniote)

Osteichthyes - Mesosauria

Alternative spellings: Mesosauri, Mesosauri

Synonym: Proganosauria Baur 1887

Full reference: H. G. Seeley. 1892. The Mesosauria of South Africa. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 48:586-604

Parent taxon: Amniota according to J. A. Gauthier et al. 1989

See also Baur 1887, Carroll 1969, Carroll 1988, Gadow 1898, Goodrich 1916, Haughton and Brink 1954, Huene 1954, Jaekel 1910, Jaekel 1911, Karl et al. 2007, Kuhn 1946, Osborn 1903, Osborn 1903, Osborn 1904, Roxo 1937, Seeley 1892, Stefano 1903 and Zittel 1890

Sister taxa: Colognathus, Dicondylia, Enigmatopus, Euamniota, Gnorhimosuchus, Kraterokheirodon, Monocondylia, Plagiaulax dawsoni, Recumbirostra, Sauropsida, Synapsida, Timanosaurus, Vitalia

Subtaxa: Neusticosauria

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