Datheosaurus

Datheosaurus
Temporal range: Late Carboniferous - Early Permian, 299–296.4 Ma
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: †Caseasauria
Family: †Caseidae
Genus: †Datheosaurus
Schroeder, 1905
Species:
†D. macrourus
Binomial name
†Datheosaurus macrourus
Schroeder, 1905

Datheosaurus is an extinct genus of caseasaur. It was at least 1.5 metres (5 ft) in length. It lived during the Latest Carboniferous to Early Permian in Poland.

Discovery and history

It was originally described in 1905 on a basis of a specimen from late Carboniferous deposits in Poland.[1] It was later considered a synonym of Haptodus by several authors, but subsequent examination has found it be a caseid rather a sphenacodont.[2] This was confirmed by cladistic analysis, which recovered Datheosaurus as a basal caseid[3]

  • Restoration
    Restoration

References

  1. ^ H. Schroeder. 1905. Datheosaurus macrourus nov. gen. nov. sp. aus dem Rotliegenden von Neurode. Jahrbuch der Königlich Preussischen Geologischen Landesanstalt und Bergakademie 25(2):282-294
  2. ^ Frederik Spindler; Jocelyn Falconnet & Jörg Fröbisch (2015). "Callibrachion and Datheosaurus, two historical and previously mistaken basal caseasaurian synapsids from Europe". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 61. doi:10.4202/app.00221.2015.
  3. ^ Neil Brocklehurst; Robert Reisz; Vincent Fernandez & Jörg Fröbisch (2016). "A Re-Description of 'Mycterosaurus' smithae, an Early Permian Eothyridid, and Its Impact on the Phylogeny of Pelycosaurian-Grade Synapsids". PLOS ONE. 11 (6): e0156810. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0156810. PMC 4917111. PMID 27333277.
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