Brithopus

Brithopus
Brithopus
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Synapsida
Order: Therapsida
Family: Brithopodidae
Genus: Brithopus
Species: B. priscus
Binomial name
Brithopus priscus
Synonyms

Rhopalodon murchisoni Fischer, 1845 Dinosaurus murchisoni (Fischer, 1845) [originally Rhopalodon]

Brithopus is an extinct genus of dinocephalian therapsid.

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Dinosaurus

Dinosaurus, a junior synonym of Brithopus, was first described in 1845 by Johann Fischer von Waldheim, first as a species of Rhopalodon (R. murchisoni), and assigned to its own genus by Fischer in 1847.[1]

The name "Dinosaurus" was later used by Ludwig Rütimeyer (1856) for a dubious genus of prosauropod dinosaur, which he named Dinosaurus gresslyi. However, the name was found to be preoccupied by the therapsid. The prosauropod was re-named Gresslyosaurus ingens, and is now considered a junior synonym of Plateosaurus.

References

  1. ^ Fischer de Waldheim, J. (1847). "Notice sur quelques Sauriens de l'Oolithe du Gouvernement de Simbirsk." Bulletin de la Societe des Naturalistes de Moscou, Tome XX pt l (Rhinosaurus Jasikovü, Ool.)

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