Biology:Hypselohaptodus

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Short description: Extinct genus of synapsids

Hypselohaptodus
Temporal range: Cisuralian, 299–296.4 Ma
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Sphenacomorpha
Clade: Sphenacodontia
Genus: Hypselohaptodus
Spindler, 2019
Species:
H. grandis
Binomial name
Hypselohaptodus grandis
(Paton, 1974)

Hypselohaptodus is a genus of sphenacodont synapsid from the Cisuralian of England. It contains a single species, Hypselohaptodus grandis, and is known only from a single specimen, a partial left maxilla, which is hosted at the Warwick County Museum. It was collected at Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England , from the Kenilworth Sandstone Formation (Warwickshire Group), dating to the earliest Asselian stage of the Cisuralian series, about 299 million years ago.[1]

H. grandis was originally assigned to Haptodus by Paton in 1974. In 2015 it was determined that H. grandis and Haptodus garnettensis were not congeneric with Haptodus baylei [2] and in 2019 Frederik Spindler reassigned H. grandis to a new genus, Hypselohaptodus.[3]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q66461564 entry