Homocladus Carpenter, 1966

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Homocladus Carpenter, 1966 .

— Carpenter (1966) described two species H. grandis Carpenter, 1966 and H. ornatus Carpenter, 1966 in this genus. Béthoux et al. (2010) synonymized them together with Paracladus retardatus Carpenter, 1966 under the name H. grandis . Nevertheless, Rasnitsyn and Aristov (2004) considered Paracladus as a valid genus, while they synonymized Homocladus with Spargoptilon . The type specimen of Paracladus is incompletely preserved, so that it is not possible to determine its exact number of branches of RP. Only the discovery of further specimen attributable to Paracladus retardatus will allow solving the problem. The same arguments as for Graticladus allow an attribution of Homocladus (and Paracladus ) to the Anthracoptilidae .