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Choristodera (choristodere)
Taxonomy
Choristodera was named by Cope (1876).
It was reranked as the suborder Choristodera by Russell (1956).
It was assigned to Eosuchia by Russell (1956); to Eosuchia by Estes (1964); to Archosauromorpha by Gauthier et al. (1989); to Neodiapsida by Evans and Manabe (1999); to Diapsida by Gao et al. (2000); to Archosauromorpha by Evans (1990) and Peng et al. (2001); to Diapsida by Carroll (1988), Hecht (1992), Cvancara and Hoganson (1993), Gao and Fox (1998) and Gao and Fox (2005); and to Lepidosauromorpha by Hou et al. (2010).
It was reranked as the suborder Choristodera by Russell (1956).
It was assigned to Eosuchia by Russell (1956); to Eosuchia by Estes (1964); to Archosauromorpha by Gauthier et al. (1989); to Neodiapsida by Evans and Manabe (1999); to Diapsida by Gao et al. (2000); to Archosauromorpha by Evans (1990) and Peng et al. (2001); to Diapsida by Carroll (1988), Hecht (1992), Cvancara and Hoganson (1993), Gao and Fox (1998) and Gao and Fox (2005); and to Lepidosauromorpha by Hou et al. (2010).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1876 | Choristodera Cope p. 350 |
| 1956 | Choristodera Russell p. 4 |
| 1964 | Choristodera Estes p. 99 |
| 1988 | Choristodera Carroll |
| 1989 | Choristodera Gauthier et al. p. 345 |
| 1990 | Choristodera Evans |
| 1992 | Choristodera Hecht p. 117 |
| 1993 | Choristodera Cvancara and Hoganson p. 15 |
| 1998 | Choristodera Gao and Fox p. 306 |
| 1999 | Choristodera Evans and Manabe p. 103 |
| 2000 | Choristodera Gao et al. p. 417 |
| 2001 | Choristodera Peng et al. p. 32 |
| 2005 | Choristodera Gao and Fox p. 428 |
| 2010 | Choristodera Hou et al. |
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