Hypselohaptodus
Hypselohaptodus Temporal range: Cisuralian,
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Sphenacomorpha |
Clade: | Sphenacodontia |
Genus: | †Hypselohaptodus Spindler, 2019 |
Species: | †H. grandis
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Binomial name | |
†Hypselohaptodus grandis (Paton, 1974)
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Hypselohaptodus is a genus of sphenacodont synapsid from the Cisuralian of England. It contains a single species, Hypselohaptodus grandis, and is known only from a single specimen, a partial left maxilla, which is hosted at the . It was collected at Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England, from the (Warwickshire Group), dating to the earliest Asselian stage of the Cisuralian series, about 299 million years ago.[1]
H. grandis was originally assigned to Haptodus by Paton in 1974. In 2015 it was determined that H. grandis and Haptodus garnettensis were not congeneric with Haptodus baylei [2] and in 2019 Frederik Spindler reassigned H. grandis to a new genus, Hypselohaptodus.[3]
References[]
- ^ R. L. Paton (1974). "Lower Permian Pelycosaurs from the English Midlands". Palaeontology. 17 (3): 541–552.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
- ^ http://tubaf.qucosa.de/api/qucosa%3A22988/attachment/ATT-0/
- ^ Spindler, Frederik (15 August 2019). "Re-evaluation of an early sphenacodontian synapsid from the Lower Permian of England" (PDF). Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 111: 27–37. doi:10.1017/S175569101900015X. S2CID 202192911. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
Categories:
- Prehistoric sphenacodonts
- Prehistoric synapsid genera
- Cisuralian synapsids of Europe
- Permian England
- Fossils of England
- Fossil taxa described in 2019