Shinisauridae Ahl 1930
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DEFINITION: Shinisaurus crocodilurus, Bahndwivici ammoskius, and all descendants of their last common ancestor.
DIAGNOSIS: Shinisaurids are diagnosed by 58(0) linear interorbital margins of the frontal and 205(0) retroarticular process lacking medial deflection (a reversal).
COMMENTS: Shinisaurus has traditionally been considered a member of Xenosauridae (see above). Fan (1931) initially proposed the family Shinisauridae for Shinisaurus crocodilurus alone, but this group was demoted to subfamily by McDowell and Bogert (1954), a convention followed by many subsequent authors (Rieppel, 1980a; Gauthier, 1982; though see Hu et al., 1984). Given the extremely long missing history of the shinisaurid lineage and its potential to receive morphologically divergent taxa, the name Shinisauridae is applied here at the node containing S. crocodilurus and Bahndwivici ammoskius following Conrad (2006b).
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- Ahl
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- Animalia
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- Chordata
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- Squamata
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- Shinisauridae
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- Shinisauridae Ahl, 1930 sec. Conrad, 2008
References
- Fan, T. H. 1931. Preliminary report of reptiles from Yaoshan, Kwangsi, China. Bulletin of the Bioloical Department ,, College of Science, Sun Yatsen University 11: 19 - 24.
- McDowell, S. B., Jr, and C. M. Bogert. 1954. The systematic position of Lanthanotus borneensis, and the affinities of the anguinomorphan lizards. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 105 (1): 1 - 142.
- Rieppel, O. 1980 a. The phylogeny of anguinimorph lizards. Basel: Naturforschenden Gesellshaft, 86 pp.
- Gauthier, J. A. 1982. Fossil xenosaurid and anguid lizards from the early Eocene Wasatch Formation, southeast Wyoming, and a revision of the Anguioidea. Contributions to Geology University of Wyoming 21: 7 - 54.
- Hu, Q., Y. Jiang, and E. Zhao. 1984. A study on the taxonomic status of Shinisaurus crocodilurus. Acta Herpetologica Sinica 3: 1 - 7.