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Dimetrodon natalis

Sphenacodontidae

Taxonomy
Clepsydrops natalis was named by Cope (1878). Its type specimen is AMNH 4110, a partial skeleton (of a juvenile), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Mount Barry, 12 (Admiral Formation), which is in an Artinskian terrestrial shale in the Admiral Formation of Texas.

It was recombined as Dimetrodon natalis by Romer (1936), Romer and Price (1940) and Reisz (1986).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1878Clepsydrops natalis Cope p. 509
1888Clepsydrops natalis Cope p. 287
1902Clepsydrops natalis Hay p. 431
1907Clepsydrops natalis Case p. 42
1911Clepsydrops natalis Williston
1928Clepsydrops natalis Perrier p. 3085
1930Clepsydrops natalis Hay p. 53
1936Dimetrodon natalis Romer p. 90
1940Dimetrodon natalis Romer and Price pp. 352-355
1986Dimetrodon natalis Reisz

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
suborderEupelycosauria
—SphenacomorphaIvakhnenko 2003
suborderSphenacodontia
—Sphenacodontoidea
familySphenacodontidaeMarsh 1878
subfamilySphenacodontinae
genusDimetrodon
speciesnatalis()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Dimetrodon natalis Cope 1878
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available