Therochelonia
Therochelonia Temporal range: Late Permian - Early Cretaceous | |
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Life restoration of Cistecephalus Cistecephalus microrhinus | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Order: | Therapsida |
Infraorder: | †Dicynodontia |
Parvorder: | †Therochelonia Seeley, 1894 |
Subgroups | |
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Therochelonia is a group of dicynodont therapsids. The group was named by British paleontologist Harry Seeley in 1894 and fell into disuse in the following century. Therochelonia was redefined as a node-based clade in 2009. It is defined as the last common ancestor of Cistecephalus microrhinus and Dicynodon lacerticeps, and all of its descendants.[1] Below is a simplified cladogram from Kammerer et al. (2011) showing the phylogenetic placement of Therochelonia:[2]
Dicynodontia |
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References
- ↑ Kammerer, C.F.; Angielczyk, K.D. (2009). "A proposed higher taxonomy of anomodont therapsids" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2018: 1–24.
- ↑ Kammerer, C.F.; Angielczyk, K.D.; Fröbisch, J. (2011). "A comprehensive taxonomic revision of Dicynodon (Therapsida, Anomodontia) and its implications for dicynodont phylogeny, biogeography, and biostratigraphy". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (Suppl. 1): 1–158. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.627074.
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