Dimacrodon
Name:
Dimacrodon.
Phonetic: Dy-mac-ro-don.
Named By: E. C. Olson & J. R.
Beerbower - 1953.
Classification: Chordata, Synapsida,
Anomodontia?/Pelycosauria?
Species: D. hottoni (type).
Diet: Uncertain.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: USA, Texas - San Angelo
Formation (Flowerpot Shale Member).
Time period: Kungurian of the Permian.
Fossil representation: Partial remains.
When first described in 1953, Dimacrodon was thought to be an anomodont therapsid. Later analysis however has suggested that the partial remains of Dimacrodon night actual be those of a pelycosaur.
Further reading
- The San Angelo Formation, Permian of Texas, and its
Vertebrates. - Journal of Geology 61(5):389-423. - E.
C. Olson & J. R. Beerbower - 1953.
- The taxonomic status of the Upper Permian eotheriodont therapsids
of the San Angelo Formation (Guadalupian), Texas. - Journal
of Vertebrate Paleontology 15 (suppl. 3): 53A. - C. A.
Sidor & J. A. Hopson - 1995.
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