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Pistosauridae (disused)
Taxonomy
Pistosauridae was named by Zittel (1887). Its type is Pistosaurus.
It was assigned to Nothosauri by Jaekel (1910); to Pistosauria by Kuhn (1946); to Pistosauroidea by Persson (1963) and Kuhn (1966); to Pistosaurida by Kuhn (1971); to Pistosauria by Rieppel (2000); to Pistosauria by O'Keefe (2001); and to Pistosauria by Rieppel et al. (2002).
It was assigned to Nothosauri by Jaekel (1910); to Pistosauria by Kuhn (1946); to Pistosauroidea by Persson (1963) and Kuhn (1966); to Pistosaurida by Kuhn (1971); to Pistosauria by Rieppel (2000); to Pistosauria by O'Keefe (2001); and to Pistosauria by Rieppel et al. (2002).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1887 | Pistosauridae Zittel |
| 1910 | Pistosauridae Jaekel p. 335 |
| 1946 | Pistosauridae Kuhn p. 59 |
| 1963 | Pistosauridae Persson p. 3 |
| 1966 | Pistosauridae Kuhn p. 115 |
| 1971 | Pistosauridae Kuhn p. 19 |
| 2000 | Pistosauridae Rieppel |
| 2001 | Pistosauridae O'Keefe p. 19 fig. 20 |
| 2002 | Pistosauridae Rieppel et al. p. 578 |
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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.
Fm. †Pistosauridae Zittel 1887
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| O. Rieppel et al. 2002 | Snout elongated and tapering anteriorly; external nares retracted, narrow, and with longitudinal diameter distinctly less than half longitudinal diameter of orbit; prefrontal with slender anteromedial process entering between maxilla and premaxilla; frontal entering anteromedial margin of upper temporal fossa; anterior premaxillary, maxillary fangs, and dentary fangs present; parapophysis shifted backwards on centrum along cervical vertebral column; coracoid with expanded medial symphysis; humerus with reduced epicondyles; deltopectoral crest absent; distal end of ulna expanded. |
Measurements
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| Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||