Brithopus
| Brithopus Temporal range: Middle Permian, Ufimian | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | †Dinocephalia |
| Family: | †Brithopodidae |
| Genus: | †Brithopus Kutorga, 1838 |
| Species: | †B. priscus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Brithopus priscus Kutorga, 1838 | |
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Brithopus is an extinct genus of dinocephalian therapsids. It contains a single species, Brithopus priscus, known from fragmentary remains found in the Copper Sandstones near Isheevo, Russia.
Description
[edit]Brithopus was fairly large, reaching a length of 2.5–3 m (8–10 ft).[1] The skull was similar to Titanophoneus, but more massive and heavily built.[2]
Classification
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B. priscus was first named in 1838 and was traditionally classified in the Anteosauria, a group of carnivorous dinocephalians. Brithopus served as the basis for the family Brithopodidae, which once included many anteosaurian species. Because it is based on fragmentary material, Brithopus is regarded as a nomen dubium by some researchers, including Christian Kammerer, who in a 2011 study stated that it had been used as a "wastebasket taxon for Ural copper measures dinocephalian postcranial material". Kammerer suggested that Brithopus priscus was not an anteosaur and was likely a tapinocephalian of some kind.[3]
Dinosaurus and Eurosaurus have both been considered synonyms of Brithopus.[4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "Palaeos Vertebrates Therapsida: Anteosauria". palaeos.com. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
- ↑ Olson, E.C. (1962). "Late Permian terrestrial vertebrates, U.S.A. and U.S.S.R." Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, 52: 1–224.
- ↑ Kammerer, Christian F. (June 2011). "Systematics of the Anteosauria (Therapsida: Dinocephalia)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 9 (2): 261–304. doi:10.1080/14772019.2010.492645. ISSN 1477-2019.
- ↑ Battail, B., and Surkov, M. V. (2000). "Mammal-like reptiles from Russia." The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, 86-119.
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