| Lanthanostegus Temporal range: Late Permian [1] | |
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| Genus: | †Lanthanostegus Modesto et al. 2003 |
| Species: | †Lanthanostegus mohoii Modesto et al. 2002 |
Lanthanostegus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsids from the Capitanian Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone, Koonap Formation (Beaufort Group) of South Africa. It was assigned to the clade Endothiodontia.[2] The type and the only species is Lanthanostegus mohoii.
Taxonomic history
The animal was named as Lanthanocephalus mohoii by Modesto et al. in 2002 but was recombined as Lanthanostegus mohoii in 2003.[3]
See also
References
- ↑ Lanthanostegus in the Paleobiology Database
- ↑ J. Fröbisch and R. R. Reisz. 2011. The postcranial anatomy of Suminia getmanovi (Synapsida: Anomodontia), the earliest known arboreal tetrapod. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 162:661-698
- ↑ S. P. Modesto, B. S. Rubidge, and J. Welman. 2003. Erratum: A replacement name for Lanthanocephalus Modesto, Rubidge and Welman 2002, not Lanthanocephalus Williams and Starmer 2000. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 40(3):467
External links
- "The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids". Mikko's Phylogeny Archive.
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