Hallucicrania

Hallucicranians
Temporal range: 289.5–199.6Ma
Skull of Lanthanosuchus watsoni, a lanthanosuchoidean
Skeleton of Scutosaurus karpinskii, a procolophonian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: †Procolophonomorpha
Clade: †Hallucicrania
Lee, 1995
Subgroups
Synonyms
  • Ankyramorpha deBraga & Reisz, 1996

Hallucicrania is an extinct clade of procolophonomorph parareptiles from the early Cisuralian epoch (middle Sakmarian stage) to the latest Triassic period (latest Rhaetian stage) of Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America.[1][2]

The clade Ankyramorpha was named by the paleontologists Michael deBraga and Robert R. Reisz in 1996 and given nearly the same definition. They defined it as "the most recent common ancestor of Procolophonia and Lanthanosuchoidea and all its descendants".[3] The following cladogram was found by the analysis of Linda A. Tsuji, Johannes Müller and Robert R. Reisz, 2012.[4]

Procolophonomorpha

Australothyris smithi

Microleter mckinzieorum


Ankyramorpha (=Hallucicrania)
Lanthanosuchoidea

Acleistorhinus pteroticus

Lanthanosuchus watsoni
Bolosauridae

Belebey chengi

Eudibamus cursoris

Nyctiphruretus acudens


Procolophonia
Procolophonoidea

Owenettidae

Procolophonidae



Pareiasauromorpha

Nycteroleteria

Pareiasauria








References

  1. ↑ Marcello Ruta, Juan C. Cisneros, Torsten Liebrect, Linda A. Tsuji and Johannes Muller (2011). "Amniotes through major biological crises: faunal turnover among Parareptiles and the end-Permian mass extinction". Palaeontology 54 (5): 1117–1137. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01051.x.
  2. ↑ Jalil, N. E., & Janvier, P. (2005). Les pareiasaures (Amniota, Parareptilia) du Permien supérieur du Bassin d’Argana, Maroc. Geodiversitas, 27(1), 35-132.
  3. ↑ Michael deBraga and Robert R. Reisz (1996). "The Early Permian Reptile Acleistorhinus pteroticus and Its Phylogenetic Position". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16 (3): 384–395. doi:10.1080/02724634.1996.10011328. JSTOR 4523731.
  4. ↑ Linda A. Tsuji, Johannes Müller and Robert R. Reisz (2012). "Anatomy of Emeroleter levis and the Phylogeny of the Nycteroleter Parareptiles". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32 (1): 45–67. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.626004.