无齿兽属

无齿兽属学名Oudenodon)是已灭绝合弓纲的一属,属于异齿亚目二齿兽下目,化石发现于非洲南部,生存年代为二叠纪晚期。无齿兽目前已有数个已命名种[2]模式种O. grandis以及O. bainii的化石发现于南非[3][4]O. luangwensis的化石发现于尚比亚[5]O. sakamenensis的化石发现于马达加斯加,是已知唯一发现于马达加斯加的兽孔目[6]

无齿兽属
化石时期:乐平世
科学分类 编辑
界: 动物界 Animalia
门: 脊索动物门 Chordata
纲: 合弓纲 Synapsida
演化支 兽孔类 Therapsida
科: 无齿兽科 Oudenodontidae
属: 无齿兽属 Oudenodon
Bain, 1856
模式种
Oudenodon bainii
Owen, 1860
  • O. bainii Owen, 1860
  • O. grandis Haughton, 1917
  • O. greyii Owen, 1859
  • O. luangwensis
    Boonstra, 1938[1]
  • O. prognathus Owen, 1860
  • O. sakamenensis
    Mazin and King, 1991
无齿兽的头颅骨
O. baini的头颅骨

无齿兽是无齿兽科模式属,无齿兽科还包含:CteniosaurusTropidostoma、以及Rhachiocephalus

参考资料

  1. ^ Boonstra, L. D. (1938). A report of some Karoo reptiles from the Luangwa Valley, Northern Rhodesia. Quaternary Journal of the Geological Society of London 94:371-384.
  2. ^ King, G. (1988). Anomodontia. Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology 17C:1-174.
  3. ^ Owen, R. (1860). On some reptilian fossils from South Africa. Quaternary Journal of the Geological Assotiation of South Africa 67:1-110.
  4. ^ Haughton, S. H. (1917). Investigations in South African fossil reptiles and Amphibia. Part 10. Descriptive catalogue of the Dicynodontia. Annals of the South African Museum 12:127-174.
  5. ^ Keyser, A. W. (1975). A re-evaluation of the cranial morphology and systematics of some tuskless Anomodontia. Memoir of the Geological Society of South Africa 67:1-110.
  6. ^ Mazin, J. M. and King, G. M. (1991). The first dicynodont from the Late Permian of Malagasy. Palaeontology 34:837–842.

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