Biology:Knoxosaurus
| Knoxosaurus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | †Knoxosaurus Olson, 1962 |
| Type species | |
| †Knoxosaurus niteckii Olson, 1962
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Knoxosaurus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsids containing the species Knoxosaurus niteckii that existed approximately 279.5 to 268 million years ago.[1] It was named by American paleontologist Everett C. Olson in 1962 on the basis of fragmentary fossils from Middle Permian-age deposits in the San Angelo Formation of Texas in the United States.[2] Olson placed Knoxosaurus in a new infraorder called Eotheriodontia, which he considered a transitional group between the more reptile-like "pelycosaurs" and the more mammal-like therapsids. Knoxosaurus and Olson's other eotheriodonts were later considered to be undiagnostic remains of basal synapsids, no more closely related to therapsids than are other pelycosaur-grade synapsids.[3]
See also
- List of therapsids
References
- ↑ "Fossilworks: Knoxosaurus niteckii". http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=142569.
- ↑ Olson, E.C. (1962). "Late Permian terrestrial vertebrates, USA and USSR". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 52 (2): 1–224. doi:10.2307/1005904.
- ↑ Sidor, C.A.; Hopson, J.A. (1995). "The taxonomic status of the Upper Permian eutheriodont therapsids of the San Angelo Formation (Guadalupian), Texas". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15 (3 Suppl.): 53A. doi:10.1080/02724634.1995.10011277.
Wikidata ☰ Q1704779 entry
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