Temporal range: Late Carboniferous to Early Permian, ~307–272 Ma
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Mounted skeleton of Edaphosaurus pogonias in the Field Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Clade:
Synapsida
Clade:
Sphenacomorpha
Family:
†Edaphosauridae Cope, 1882
Type species
†Edaphosaurus pogonias
Cope, 1882
Genera
†Bohemiclavulus
†Edaphosaurus
†Gordodon
†Glaucosaurus
†Ianthasaurus
†Lupeosaurus
†Melanedaphodon[1]
†Ramodendron[2]
†Remigiomontanus
†Xyrospondylus
Edaphosauridae is a family of mostly large (up to 3 meters or more) Late Carboniferous to Early Permian synapsids. Edaphosaur fossils are so far known only from North America and Europe.
^Mann, A.; Henrici, A. C.; Sues, H.-D.; Pierce, S. E. (2023). "A new Carboniferous edaphosaurid and the origin of herbivory in mammal forerunners". Scientific Reports. 13 (1): 4459. doi:10.1038/s41598-023-30626-8. PMC 10076360.
^Frederik Spindler, Sebastian Voigt & Jan Fischer (2019) Edaphosauridae (Synapsida, Eupelycosauria) from Europe and their relationship to North American representatives. PalZ (advance online publication) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-019-00453-2 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12542-019-00453-2
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