TEXAS
TAYLOR COUNTY
SOUTH OF ABILENE
EARLY PERMIAN
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: AMPHIBIA LINNAEUS, 1758
SUBCLASS: LABYRINTHODONTIA OWEN, 1860
SUPERORDER: TEMNOSPONDYLIA ZITTEL, 1887
MICROORDER: LIMNARCHIA YATES & WARREN, 2000
ORDER: DVINOSAURIA YATES & WARREN, 2000
INFRAORDER: TRIMERORHACHOIDA ROMER, 1947
Superfamily: TRIMERORHACHOIDEA Cope, 1882 (sensu Romer, 1947)
Family: TRIMERORHACHIDAE Cope, 1882
Gen. sp indet.
SUBCLASS: LEPOSPONDYLI ZITTEL, 1888
ORDER: NECTRIDEA MIALL, 1875
Family: DIPLOCAULIDAE Cope, 1881
Diplocaulus sp
CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768
SUBCLASS: PARAREPTILIA OLSON 1947
INFRACLASS: SAUROPSIDA HUXLEY, 1864
ORDER: COTYLOSAURIA COPE, 1880
SUBORDER: DIADECTOMORPHA Watson, 1917
Family: DIADECTIDAE Cope, 1880
Gen. sp indet.
SUBCLASS: SYNAPSIDA OSBORN, 1903
ORDER: PELYCOSAURIA COPE, 1878
SUBORDER: EUPELYCOSAURIA KEMP, 1982
INFRAORDER: OPHIACHODONTIA NOVA
Family: VARANOPIDAE emend Romer & Price, 1940, REISZ & DILKES, 2003
Subfamily: VARANODONTINAE Reisz & Berman, 2001
Varanops brevirostris