| Brithopus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Synapsida |
| Order: | Therapsida |
| Family: | †Brithopodidae |
| Genus: | †Brithopus |
| Species: | †B. priscus |
| Binomial name | |
| Brithopus priscus |
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| Synonyms | |
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Rhopalodon murchisoni Fischer, 1845 Dinosaurus murchisoni (Fischer, 1845) [originally Rhopalodon] |
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Brithopus is an extinct genus of dinocephalian therapsid.
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Dinosaurus, a junior synonym of Brithopus, was first described in 1845 by Johann Fischer von Waldheim, first as a species of Rhopalodon (R. murchisoni), and assigned to its own genus by Fischer in 1847.[1]
The name "Dinosaurus" was later used by Ludwig Rütimeyer (1856) for a dubious genus of prosauropod dinosaur, which he named Dinosaurus gresslyi. However, the name was found to be preoccupied by the therapsid. The prosauropod was re-named Gresslyosaurus ingens, and is now considered a junior synonym of Plateosaurus.