Datheosaurus
| Datheosaurus Temporal range: Late Carboniferous - Early Permian, 299–296.4 Ma | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | †Caseasauria |
| Genus: | †Datheosaurus Schroeder, 1905 |
| Species | |
Datheosaurus is an extinct genus of caseasaur. It was at least 1.5 metres (5 ft) in length. It lived from Latest Carboniferous to Early Permian.
Discovery and history
It was originally described in 1905 on a basis of a specimen from late Carboniferous deposits in Poland. It was later considered a synonym of Haptodus by several authors, but subsequent cladistic analysis has found it be a caseasaurian rather a sphenacodont.[1]
References
- ↑ Frederik Spindler, Jocelyn Falconnet, and Jörg Fröbisch (2015). "Callibrachion and Datheosaurus, two historical and previously mistaken basal caseasaurian synapsids from Europe". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. doi:10.4202/app.00221.2015.
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