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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	57278	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=57278

Rank

suborder (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Eosuchia : Sauria

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
order	Sauria

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Sauria	order	belongs to Reptilia	stated without evidence	d'Orbigny, 1849
Sauria	order	belongs to Amphibia	stated without evidence	Quenstedt, 1882
Sauria	subclass	belongs to Reptilia	stated with evidence	Gadow, 1898
Sauria	suborder	belongs to Squamata	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Sauria	suborder	belongs to Squamata	stated with evidence	Gilmore, 1928
Sauria	suborder	belongs to Reptilia	stated with evidence	Estes, 1964
Sauria	suborder	belongs to Squamata	stated without evidence	Antunes, 1964
Sauria	suborder	belongs to Squamata	stated with evidence	Kuhn, 1966
Sauria	suborder	belongs to Squamata	stated without evidence	Sulimski, 1972
Sauria	suborder	subjective synonym of Lacertilia	stated without evidence	Seiffert, 1975
Sauria	order	belongs to Reptilia	stated without evidence	Sahni and Srivastava, 1976
Sauria	order	belongs to Squamata	stated without evidence	Estes, 1983
Sauria	suborder	belongs to Squamata	stated with evidence	Benton, 1985
Sauria	order	belongs to Squamata	stated without evidence	Sullivan, 1986
Sauria	order	belongs to Squamata	implied	Lingham-Soliar, 1994
Sauria	order	belongs to Reptilia	implied	Clos, 1995
Sauria	order	belongs to Squamata	stated with evidence	Lingham-Soliar, 1995
Sauria	suborder	belongs to Neodiapsida	stated with evidence	Muller, 2003

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

5 (36%)

First Recorded Appearance

157 - 145 Ma
Jurassic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Diapsida)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

A. Sahni and V.C. Srivastava. 1976. Eocene rodents and associated reptiles from the Subathu Formation of northwestern India. Journal of Paleontology 50(5):922-928

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Autosauri order	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Eolacertilia ✝ infraorder	listed (PBDB)	1	50.3 Ma Eocene	50.3 Ma Eocene
Labyrinthodontidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Glaphyrorhynchus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Menodon ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Dactylopodes unranked clade	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Labyrinthodontes ✝ unranked clade	listed (PBDB)
Nexipodes ✝ unranked clade	listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1800	Saurii Latreille
1802	Sauria MacCartney
1849	Sauria d'Orbigny p. 204
1854	Sauria Mantell p. 646
1882	Sauri Quenstedt p. 155
1898	Sauria Gadow p. 24
1902	Sauria Hay p. 473
1928	Ascalabota Gilmore
1928	Sauria Gilmore p. 14
1942	Ascalabota Gilmore p. 264
1964	Sauria Antunes p. 137
1964	Sauria Estes p. 101

Year	Name and Author
1966	Sauria Kuhn p. 45
1972	Sauria Sulimski p. 34
1976	Sauria Sahni and Srivastava p. 925
1983	Sauria Estes
1985	Sauria Benton p. 157
1986	Sauria Sullivan p. 109
1991	Sauria Barbera and Macuglia p. 421
1994	Sauria Lingham-Soliar p. 269
1995	Sauria Clos p. 254
1995	Sauria Lingham-Soliar
2003	Sauria Muller

References

Sahni A., Srivastava V.C. (1976) Eocene rodents and associated reptiles from the Subathu Formation of northwestern India, Journal of Paleontology 50 5, 922-928

Mantell G. A. , The Medals of Creation; or, First Lessions in Geology, and the Study of Organic Remains 2, 447-930

Gadow H. , A Classification of Vertebrata Recent and Extinct, xvii-82

Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868

Gilmore C. W. (1928) Fossil lizards of North America, Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 22 3, 1-201

Antunes M. T. (1964) O Neocretacio e o Cenozoico do litoral de Angola, Junta de Investigcoes do Ultramar, 1-254

Estes R. (1964) Fossil vertebrates from the Late Cretaceous Lance Formation, eastern Wyoming, University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 49, 1-187

Kuhn O. W. M. (1966) , Die Reptilien. System und Stammesgeschichte [The Reptiles. Systematics and Phylogeny.], 1-154

Sulimski A. (1972) Adamisaurus magnidentatus n. gen., n. sp. (Sauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia, Palaeontologia Polonica 27, 33-40

Estes R. (1983) Sauria terrestria, Amphisbaenia, Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie 10A, 1-249

Benton M. J. (1985) Classification and phylogeny of the diapsid reptiles, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 84 2, 97-164

Sullivan R. M. (1986) A new fossil anguid lizard Parodaxosaurus sanjuanensis, new genus, new species from the middle Paleocene (Torrejonian) Nacimiento Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico, Journal of Herpetology 20 1, 109-111

Clos L. M. (1995) A new species of Varanus (Reptilia: Sauria) from the Miocene of Kenya, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15 2, 254-267

Lingham-Soliar T. (1995) Anatomy and Functional Morphology of the Largest Marine Reptile Known, Mosasaurus hoffmanni (Mosasauridae, Reptilia) from the Upper Cretaceous, Upper Maastrichtian of the Netherlands, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 347 1320, 155-180

Muller J. (2003) Early loss and multiple return of the lower temporal arcade in diapsid reptiles, Naturwissenschaften 90 10, 473-476 doi:10.1007/s00114-003-0461-0

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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