Rhiodenticulatus

Rhiodenticulatus
Temporal range: Early Permian, Sakmarian
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Eureptilia
Family: †Captorhinidae
Genus: †Rhiodenticulatus
Berman & Reisz, 1986
Species: † R. heatoni
Binomial name
Rhiodenticulatus heatoni
Berman & Reisz, 1986

Rhiodenticulatus is an extinct genus of Early Permian captorinid known from Rio Arriba County, New Mexico of the United States.[1]

Description

Rhiodenticulatus is known from the holotype UCMP 35757, three-dimensionally preserved nearly complete skull and postcranial elements, and from the referred specimens, which come from a second individual, UCMP 40209 and UCMP 40210. All specimens were collected in the Camp Quarry (UCMP V-2814 locality), from the Cutler Formation of New Mexico, dating to the Sakmarian stage of the early Cisuralian Series.[1]

Etymology

Rhiodenticulatus was first named by David S. Berman and Robert R. Reisz in 1986 and the type species is Rhiodenticulatus heatoni. The generic name is derived from Greek, meaning "nose with small teeth". The specific name honors the paleontologist Malcolm J. Heaton.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 David S. Berman and Robert R. Reisz (1986). "Captorhinid reptiles from the Early Permian of New Mexico, with description of a new genus and species". Annals of Carnegie Museum 55: 1–28.
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