Datheosaurus
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.
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | †Caseasauria |
| Family: | †Caseidae |
| Genus: | †Datheosaurus Schroeder, 1905 |
| Species: | †D. macrourus |
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| †Datheosaurus macrourus Schroeder, 1905 | |
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
References
- 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
- 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.
- 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: e0156810. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0156810. PMC 4917111. PMID 27333277.
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