Lanthanostegus

Lanthanostegus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsids from the Capitanian Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone, Koonap Formation (Beaufort Group) of South Africa. It was assigned to the clade Endothiodontia.[2] The type and the only species is Lanthanostegus mohoii.

Lanthanostegus
Temporal range: Late Permian [1]
Scientific classification
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Lanthanostegus Modesto et al. 2003
Species:
Lanthanostegus mohoii Modesto et al. 2002

Taxonomic history

The animal was named as Lanthanocephalus mohoii by Modesto et al. in 2002 but was recombined as Lanthanostegus mohoii in 2003.[3]

See also

References

  1. Lanthanostegus in the Paleobiology Database
  2. J. Fröbisch and R. R. Reisz. 2011. The postcranial anatomy of Suminia getmanovi (Synapsida: Anomodontia), the earliest known arboreal tetrapod. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 162:661-698
  3. S. P. Modesto, B. S. Rubidge, and J. Welman. 2003. Erratum: A replacement name for Lanthanocephalus Modesto, Rubidge and Welman 2002, not Lanthanocephalus Williams and Starmer 2000. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 40(3):467
  • "The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids". Mikko's Phylogeny Archive.


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