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Shansiodontidae ✝

Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)169986https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=169986
Rankfamily (PBDB)
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Cotylosauria : Shansiodontidae
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SynapsidaOsborn 1903
-Therapsida
-AnomodontiaOwen 1859
-Chainosauria
-Dicynodontia
familyShansiodontidaeCox 1965
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Shansiodontidaefamilybelongs to Dicynodontiastated without evidenceTverdokhlebov et al., 2003
Shansiodontidaefamilybelongs to Dicynodontiastated with evidenceLi and Sun, 2008
Shansiodontidaefamilybelongs to Kannemeyeriiformesstated without evidenceHancox et al., 2013
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)8
First Recorded Appearance247 - 242 Ma
Triassic
Last Recorded Appearance237 - 228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
Environmentterrestrial (based on Amniota)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)
Dietherbivore (based on Dicynodontia)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)C. B. Cox. 1965. New Triassic dicynodonts from South America, their origins and relationships. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 248(753):457-516

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Shansiodon
genus
listed (PBDB)8247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
Vinceria
genus
listed (PBDB)4247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
237 Ma
Middle Triassic

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1965Shansiodontidae Cox
2003Shansiodontidae Tverdokhlebov et al.
2008Shansiodontidae Li and Sun p. 394
2013Shansiodontidae Hancox et al. p. 664

References

Cox C. B. (1965) New Triassic dicynodonts from South America, their origins and relationships, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 248 753, 457-516
Tverdokhlebov V. P., Tverdokhlebova G. I., et al (2003) Tetrapod localities from the Triassic of the SE of European Russia, Earth-Science Reviews 60 1-2, 1-66
Li J., Sun A. (2008) Subclass Synapsida, The Chinese Fossil Reptiles and Their Kin, 379-417
Hancox P. J., Angielczyk K. D., et al (2013) Angonisaurus and Shansiodon, dicynodonts (Therapsida, Anomodontia) from Subzone C of the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone (Middle Triassic) of South Africa, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33 3, 655-676
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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