Chainosauria

Chainosauria
Chainosauria
Temporal range: Middle Permian - Late Triassic
Possible Early Cretaceous record
Life restoration of Patranomodon nyaphulii
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Synapsida
Order: Therapsida
(unranked): Eutherapsida
(unranked): Neotherapsida
Suborder: †Anomodontia
clade: †Chainosauria
Nopsca, 1923
Subtaxa

Chainosauria is a large clade of anomodont therapsids. It includes dicynodonts and the basal taxa Patranomodon and Galeops.[1][2][3]

References

  1. ^ Liu, J.; Rubidge, B.; and Li, J. (2009). "A new specimen of Biseridens qilianicus indicates its phylogenetic position as the most basal anomodont". Proceedings of the Royal Society B 277 (1679): 285–292. doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.0883. PMC 2842672. PMID 19640887. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2842672. 
  2. ^ Kenneth D. Angielczyk; Bruce S. Rubidge (2010). "A new pylaecephalid dicynodont (Therapsida, Anomodontia) from the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone, Karoo Basin, Middle Permian of South Africa". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (5): 1396–1409. doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.501447. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a926992136~frm=titlelink. 
  3. ^ Cisneros, J.C.; Abdala, F.; Rubidge, B.S.; Dentzien-Dias, D.; Bueno, A.O. (2011). "Dental Occlusion in a 260-Million-Year-Old Therapsid with Saber Canines from the Permian of Brazil". Science 331: 1603–1605. doi:10.1126/science.1200305. PMID 21436452. 
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