Rhopalodon is an extinct genus of therapsids from the Permian of Russia. It has been variously classified as a dinosaur, a dinocephalian, or another branch of amniotes. Rhopalodon is notable for being among the first "reptiles" mentioned in Nature. T.H. Huxley wrote of this animal, among others, in the inaugural issue of the magazine, in November 1869. He gave the age of this animal and of the contemporary Deuterosaurus as Triassic, but both are now known to have lived during the Middle Permian.
| Rhopalodon Temporal range: Middle Permian
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | †Dinocephalia |
| Family: | †Rhopalodontidae |
| Genus: | †Rhopalodon Fischer, 1841 |
| Species: | †R. wangenheimi
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| †Rhopalodon wangenheimi Fischer, 1841
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According to Tverdokhlebov et al. (2005), Rhopalodon was a medium-sized terrestrial dinocephalian herbivore that was characteristic of the early Tatarian Urzhumian biostratigraphic zone (Bolshekinelskaya and Amanakskaya svitas).[1]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Valentin P. Tverdokhlebov, Galina I. Tverdokhlebova, Alla V. Minikh, Mikhail V. Surkov, and Michael J. Benton, (2005) Upper Permian vertebrates and their sedimentological context in the South Urals, Russia, Earth-Science Reviews 69 27-77 55
Further reading
edit- M. F. Ivakhnenko (2003). Eotherapsids from the East European Placket (Late Permian). Paleontological Journal 37(Suppl. 4):S339-S465
External links
edit- "Triassic Dinosauria". Nature. Archived from the original on April 10, 2016.
- "Dinosaur Genera List corrections #125". Dml.cmnh. Archived from the original on April 29, 2018.
- "The "Phthinosuchia"". Kheper. Archived from the original on February 3, 2017.
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