Dimacrodon

Dimacrodon
Dimacrodon
Temporal range: Lower Permian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
(unranked): Amniota
Class: Synapsida
Order: Pelycosauria
Genus: Dimacrodon
Olson & Beerbower, 1953
Species
  • Dimacrodon hottoni Olson & Beerbower, 1953

Dimacrodon is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid. Originally descript as a anomodont therapsid by Olson & Beerbower (1953) and Olson (1962), its lack any diagnostic features of anomodonts and rather represent pelycosaur-grade synapsids.[1]

See also

  • List of pelycosaurs

References

  1. ^ 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.