Kuwavaatakdectes
Kuwavaatakdectes is a genus of diadectid from the early Permian of Colorado.
Taxonomy
Kuwavaatakdectes was originally named as a species of Diadectes, D. sanmiguelensis, in 1965. However, a 2010 dissertation found it to be generically distinct from the Diadectes type species, informally renaming it Oradectes, although this genus is not valid under ICZN rules due to it having been coined in a dissertation. A paper published in 2024 formally erected Kuwavaatakdectes for sanmiguelensis.[1]
References
- ^ Ponstein, J.; Jannel, A.; Fröbisch, J. (2024). "A comprehensive phylogeny and revised taxonomy of Diadectomorpha with a discussion on the origin of tetrapod herbivory". Royal Society Open Science. 11 (6). 231566. doi:10.1098/rsos.231566.