Dimacrodon

Dimacrodon
Temporal range: Lower Permian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Order:Therapsida
Suborder:Dinocephalia
Genus:Dimacrodon
Olson & Beerbower, 1953
Species: D. hottoni
Binomial name
Dimacrodon hottoni
Olson & Beerbower, 1953

Dimacrodon is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsids from the Lower Permian of Texas. Originally described as an anomodont therapsid by Olson & Beerbower (1953) and Olson (1962), it lack any diagnostic features of anomodonts and rather represents pelycosaur-grade synapsids.[1]

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References

  1. Sidor, C.A. & Hopson, J.A. (1995). "The taxonomic status of the Upper Permian eotheriodont therapsids of the San Angelo Formation (Guadalupian), Texas". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 15 (suppl. 3): 53A. doi:10.1080/02724634.1995.10011277.


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