Dimacrodon
| Dimacrodon Temporal range: Lower Permian | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| (unranked): | Amniota |
| Class: | Synapsida |
| Order: | Anomodontia |
| Genus: | Dimacrodon Olson & Beerbower, 1953 |
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Dimacrodon is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid 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]
See also
References
- ↑ 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.