| Baeotherates Temporal range: Early Permian, 279.5–272.5 Ma |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Family: | †Captorhinidae |
| Genus: | †Baeotherates May & Cifelli, 1998 |
| Species: | †B. fortsillensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Baeotherates fortsillensis May & Cifelli, 1998 |
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Baeotherates is an extinct genus of Early Permian captorinid known from Oklahoma of the USA.[1]
Baeotherates is known from the holotype OMNH 55758, a right mandible (dentary). It was collected in the Richards Spur, from the Garber Formation (Dolese Brothers Limestone Quarry) of the Sumner Group, Comanche County of Oklahoma, dating to the early Kungurian stage of the Cisuralian Epoch, about 279.5-272.5 million years ago.[1]
Baeotherates was first named by W. J. May and Richard L. Cifelli in 1998 and the type species is Baeotherates fortsillensis. The generic name means "small hunter". The specific name named after the military base Fort Sill near the type locality.[1]