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Abbreviated Cladogram

REPTILOMORPHA
|--SYNAPSIDA
`--+--ANAPSIDA
   |
   Eureptilia
   |--Protorothyrididae
   `--Diapsida
      |--Araeoscelidans
      `--Neodiapsida
         |--Younginiformes
         `--+--Ichthyosauria
            |  |--Shastasauria
            |  `--Thunnosauria
            `--Sauria
               |
               |--LEPIDOSAUROMORPHA
               `--ARCHOSAUROMORPHA

Contents

210.000 Overview
210.100 Eureptilia
210.200 Neodiapsida
210.300 Ichthyosauria
210.400 Euichthyosauria
210.500 Thunnosauria
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References


Caldwell, MW (1994), Developmental constraints and limb evoluiton in Permian and extant lepidosauromorph diapsids. J. Vert. Paleontol. 14: 459-471. Neodiapsida

Caldwell, MW (1996), Ichthyosauria: a preliminary phylogenetic analysis of diapsid affinities. N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Abh. 200: 361-386. Neodiapsida

Callaway, JM (1997), A new look at Mixosaurus, in JM Callaway & EL Nicholls (eds.), Ancient Marine Reptiles.  Academic Press.  pp. 45-59. Grippidia, Ichthyosauria, Mixosaurus

Callaway, JM (1997a), Ichthyosauria: Introduction, in JM Callaway & EL Nicholls (eds.), Ancient Marine Reptiles.  Academic Press,  pp. 3-16. Ichthyosauria, Ichthyosaurus, Mixosaurus, Neodiapsida, Sauria, Temnodontosaurus.

Camp, CL (1980), Large ichthyosaurs from the Upper Triassic of Nevada. Palaeontographica Ser. A. 170: 139-200.  Californosaurus, Shastasauria.

Carroll, RL (1981), Plesiosaur ancestors from the Upper Permian of Madagascar. Phil Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 293: 315-383. Claudiosaurus, Neodiapsida

Cox, B, RJG Savage, B Gardiner, & D Dixon (1988), Collins Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals.  Collins Publ. Aus.,  312 pp. Eureptilia

deBraga, M & O Rieppel (1997), Reptile phylogeny and the interrelationships of turtles, Zool. J. Linnean Soc. 120: 281-354. Neodiapsida.

McGowan, C (1991), Dinosaurs, Spitfires and Sea Dragons. Harvard Univ. Press, 365 pp. Ichthyosaurus, Temnodontosaurus.

McGowan, C (1995), A remarkable small ichthyosaur from the Upper Triassic of British Columbia, representing a new genus and species. Can. J. Earth Sci. 32: 292-303.  Eurhinosauria

McGowan, C (1997), A transitional ichthyosaur fauna, in JM Callaway & EL Nicholls (eds.), Ancient Marine Reptiles.  Academic Press,  pp. 61-80. Ichthyosaurus, Shastasauria, Temnodontosaurus, Thunnosauria.

Motani, R (1997), Temporal and spatial distribution of tooth implantation in ichthyosaurs, in JM Callaway & EL Nicholls (eds.), Ancient Marine Reptiles.  Academic Press. pp. 81-103. Cymbospondylus, Grippidia, Ichthyopterygia, Merriamosauria, Mixosaurus, Shastasauria, Utatsusaurus

Motani, R (1999), On the evolution and homologies of ichthyopterygian forelimbsJ. Vert. Paleontol. 19: 28-41.  Shastasauria.   

Motani, R, N Minoura & T Ando (1998), Ichthyosaurian relationships illuminated by new primitive skeletons from Japan. Nature 393: 255-257. Grippidia, Ichthyopterygia, Neodiapsida, Utatsusaurus.

Müller, J & RR Reisz (2005), An early captorhinid reptile (Amniota: Eureptilia) from the Upper Carboniferous of Hamilton, KansasJ. Vert. Paleontol. 23: 561-568. Muller  Captorhinidae, Concordia, Eureptilia.  

Rieppel, O (1989), A new pachypleurosaur (Reptilia: Sauopterygia) from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio, SwitzerlandPhil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 323: 1-73.  Diapsida, Neodiapsida

Sander, PM (1997), The paleogeography of Shastasaurus, in JM Callaway & EL Nicholls (eds.), Ancient Marine Reptiles.  Academic Press,  pp. 17-43. Californosaurus, Cymbospondylus, Mixosaurus, Shastasauria, Thunnosauria

Sereno, PC (1998), A rationale for phylogenetic definitions, with application to the higher level taxonomy of Dinosauria. Neues Jahrbuch für Geol. & Paläont. (Abh.) 210: 41-83. Neodiapsida.


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