†family Diadectidae Cope 1880

Osteichthyes - Cotylosauria - Diadectidae

Synonym: Nothodontidae Marsh 1878

Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1880. The skull of Empedocles. The American Naturalist 14:304

Parent taxon: Diadectomorpha according to M. Laurin and R. R. Reisz 1995

See also Carroll 1988, Carroll et al. 1972, Case 1911, Cope 1896, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Kissel and Lehman 2002, Kuhn 1946, Kuhn 1966, Lewis and Vaughn 1965, Liu and Bever 2015, Martens et al. 2005, Osborn 1904, Perrier 1928 and Zittel 1890

Sister taxa: Diadectoidea, Limnoscelidae, Limnoscelops, Limnoscelops longifemur, Millerinidae, Tseajaiidae

Subtaxa: Alveusdectes Ambedus Animasaurus Bolbodon Chilonyx Desmatodon Diadectes Diadectoides Diasparactus Empedias Ichniotherium Oradectes Orobates Phanerosaurus

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Distribution:

• Leonard of United States (3: Oklahoma, Texas collections)

• Wolfcamp of United States (17: Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah)

• Rotliegendes of Poland (1)

• Permian of China (1), Germany (3), Italy (1), United States (38: Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas)

• Virgilian of United States (4: Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma)

• Carboniferous to Permian of United States (1: New Mexico)

• Carboniferous of United States (2: Colorado, Pennsylvania)

Total: 71 collections including 86 occurrences

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