Neosaurus
| Neosaurus Temporal range: Late Carboniferous-Early Permian,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Family: | †Sphenacodontidae |
| Genus: | †Neosaurus Nopsca, 1923 |
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| †Neosaurus cynodus (Gervais, 1869)
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Neosaurus is an extinct genus of pelycosaur-grade synapsids from the Late Carboniferous-Early Permian of the Jura region of France. It is known only from a partial maxilla or upper jaw bone and an associated impression of the bone.[1] The teardrop shape of the teeth in the jaw indicate that Neosaurus belongs to the family Sphenacodontidae, which includes the better-known Dimetrodon from the Southwestern United States. The maxilla was first attributed to an early diapsid reptile in 1857,[2][3] and later a crocodylomorph in 1869,[4] before finally being identified as a sphenacodont synapsid in 1899,[5] a classification that still holds today.[6]
A species of the hadrosaur dinosaur Hypsibema, H. missouriensis, is also called Neosaurus, although because the name was already in use, that species was renamed Parrosaurus before being reassigned to Hypsibema.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ Nopcsa, F. 1923. "Die Familien der Reptilien". Fortschritte der Geologie und Palaeontologie 2 : 1–210
- ^ Coquand, H. 1857. "Mémoire geologique sur l'existence du terrain permien et du représentant du grès vosgien dans le département de Saône-et-Loire et dans les montagnes de la Serre (Jura)". Bulletin de la Société geologique de France 14 : 13–47
- ^ Coquand, H. 1858. "Mémoire geologique sur l'existence du terrain permien et du représentant du grès vosgien dans le département de Saône-et-Loire, ainsi que dans les montagnes de la Serre (Jura)". Mémoires de la Société d'Émulation du département du Doubs 2 : 1–40
- ^ Gervais, P. 1869. Zoology and paléontologie générales. Nouvelles recherches sur les animaux vertébrés vivants ou fossils, Première série . 263 pp. Arthus Bertrand, Paris
- ^ Baur, G. and Case, EC 1899. "The history of the Pelycosauria, with a description of the genus Dimetrodon, Cope". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 20 : 5–62
- ^ Falconnet, J. (2013). "The sphenacodontid synapsid Neosaurus cynodus, and related material, from the Permo-Carboniferous of France". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. doi:10.4202/app.2012.0105.
- ^ Gilmore, Charles Whitney; Stewart, Dan R. (January 1945). "A New Sauropod Dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Missouri". Journal of Paleontology. 19 (1). Society for Sedimentary Geology: 23–29. JSTOR 1299165.
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