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Dinodontidae
Taxonomy
Dinodontidae was named by Cope (1866). Its type is Deinodon.
It was synonymized subjectively with Megalosauridae by Hay (1902); it was synonymized subjectively with Tyrannosauridae by Romer (1956), Walker (1964), Romer (1966) and Steel (1970); it was considered a nomen vanum by Russell (1970); it was corrected as Deinodontidae by Matthew (1915), Matthew and Brown (1922), Huene (1923), Stromer (1934), Russell (1967) and Thurmond and Jones (1981).
It was assigned to Goniopoda by Matthew and Brown (1922); to Coelurosauria by Huene (1923) and Huene (1926); to Theropoda by Russell (1930); to Saurischia by Russell (1967); to Carnosauria by Huene (1929), Stromer (1934), Huene (1948), Huene (1959) and Swinton (1970); and to Theropoda by Matthew (1915) and Thurmond and Jones (1981).
It was synonymized subjectively with Megalosauridae by Hay (1902); it was synonymized subjectively with Tyrannosauridae by Romer (1956), Walker (1964), Romer (1966) and Steel (1970); it was considered a nomen vanum by Russell (1970); it was corrected as Deinodontidae by Matthew (1915), Matthew and Brown (1922), Huene (1923), Stromer (1934), Russell (1967) and Thurmond and Jones (1981).
It was assigned to Goniopoda by Matthew and Brown (1922); to Coelurosauria by Huene (1923) and Huene (1926); to Theropoda by Russell (1930); to Saurischia by Russell (1967); to Carnosauria by Huene (1929), Stromer (1934), Huene (1948), Huene (1959) and Swinton (1970); and to Theropoda by Matthew (1915) and Thurmond and Jones (1981).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1866 | Dinodontidae Cope |
| 1915 | Deinodontidae Matthew p. 32 |
| 1922 | Deinodontidae Matthew and Brown p. 378 |
| 1923 | Deinodontidae Huene p. 457 fig. 3 |
| 1926 | Dinodontidae Huene p. 101 |
| 1929 | Dinodontidae Huene p. 270 |
| 1930 | Dinodontidae Russell p. 136 |
| 1934 | Deinodontidae Stromer p. 80 |
| 1948 | Dinodontidae Huene p. 90 |
| 1959 | Dinodontidae Huene p. 122 |
| 1967 | Deinodontidae Russell p. 11 |
| 1970 | Dinodontidae Swinton p. 151 |
| 1981 | Deinodontidae Thurmond and Jones p. 144 |
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