Rhopalodon
Name:
Rhopalodon.
Phonetic: Rhop-al-o-don.
Named By: Fischer - 1841.
Classification: Chordata, Synapsida,
Therapsida, Dinocephalia?
Species: R. wangenheimi
(type).
Diet: Herbivore?
Size: Uncertain.
Known locations: Russia.
Time period: Mid/upper Permian.
Fossil representation: Partial remains.
There has been a lot of uncertainty as to exactly what Rhopalodon was, but a 2005 study by Tverdokhlebov et al considered the genus to represent a mid-sized dinocephalian therapsid.
Further reading
- Upper Permian vertebrates and their sedimentological context in the
South Urals, Russia, - Earth-Science Reviews 69 27-77 55
- Valentin P. Tverdokhlebov, Galina I. Tverdokhlebova, Alla
V. Minikh, Mikhail V. Surkov, and Michael J. Benton -
2005.
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