Callibrachion
| Callibrachion Temporal range: Early Permian, 299–296.4 Ma | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | †Caseasauria |
| Genus: | †Callibrachion Boule and Glangeaud, 1893 |
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Callibrachion is an extinct genus of caseasaur. It was at least 1.5 metres (5 ft) in length. It lived during the Early Permian.
Discovery and history
It was originally described in 1893 on a basis of a specimen Early Permian deposits in northeastern France.[1] It was later considered a synonym of Haptodus by several authors, but subsequent cladistic analysis has found it be a caseasaurian rather a sphenacodont.[2]
References
- ↑ Boule, M. and Glangeaud, P. (1893). Le Callibrachion, nouveau reptile du Permien d'Autun. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences 117 (19): 646–648.
- ↑ Spindler F., Falconnet J. and Fröbisch J. (2016). Callibrachion and Datheosaurus, two historical and previously mistaken basal caseasaurian synapsids from Europe. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61. doi:10.4202/app.00221.2015.
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