Anteosaur [SEP] parent taxon
in a 1988 review of the Anomodontia (including the Dinocephalia - however the view that the Dinocephalia are a subset of the Anomodontia is no longer held) as part of Gutsav Fischer Verlag's ongoing "Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology" series of volumes, uses a more traditional Linnaean arrangement, but includes the herbivorous forms under the superfamily Anteosauroidea as well.The "Titanosuchidae" here is equivalent to the "Tapinocephalia".
- Superfamily Anteosauroidea
- Family Brithopidae
- Subfamily Brithopodinae
- Subfamily Anteosaurinae
- Family Titanosuchidae
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Taxon in disguise
In bacteriology, a taxon in disguise is a species, genus or higher unit of biological classification whose evolutionary history reveals has evolved from another unit of similar or lower rank, making the parent unit paraphyletic. This happens when rapid evolution makes a new species appear radically different from the ancestral group, so that it is not (initially) recognised as belonging to the parent phylogenetic group, leaving the latter an evolutionary grade.
While the term is from bacteriology, parallel examples are found throughout the tree of