Dromasauria
| Dromasauria Temporal range: Middle Permian
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| Galechirus | |
Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | †Anomodontia |
| Informal group: | †Dromasauria |
| Groups included | |
Dromasaurs are a paraphyletic group of anomodont therapsids from the Middle Permian. They were small with slender legs and long tails. Their skulls were short, but the eye sockets were large. Dromasauria was once considered to be a major group of basal anomodonts along with the infraorder Venyukovioidea. It includes the genera Galepus, Galechirus, and Galeops, all from southern Africa. Below is a cladogram based on Modesto and Rubidge (2000), Liu et al. (2009) and Cisneros et al. (2011):[1][2][3]
| Anomodontia | Dromasaurs |
See also
References
- ^ Modesto, S.; Rubidge, B. (2000). "A basal anomodont therapsid from the Lower Beaufort Group, Upper Permian of South Africa". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 20 (3): 515–521. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2000)020[0515:ABATFT]2.0.CO;2.
- ^ Liu, J.; Rubidge, B.; 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.
- ^ 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 (6024): 1603–1605. Bibcode:2011Sci...331.1603C. doi:10.1126/science.1200305. PMID 21436452.
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