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Sphenacodon britannicus

Sphenacodontidae

Taxonomy
Oxyodon britannicus was named by von Huene (1908). Its type specimen is GSM 22893 and 22894 (part and counterpart), a maxilla, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Kenilworth, which is in an Asselian fluvial siliciclastic in the Kenilworth Sandstone Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Oxyodon.

It was recombined as Sphenacodon britannicus by Paton (1974) and Reisz (1986).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1908Oxyodon britannicus von Huene
1974Sphenacodon britannicus Paton p. 542 figs. 1; figs. 1, 2 pl. 84
1986Sphenacodon britannicus Reisz p. 78

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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
genusSphenacodonMarsh 1878
speciesbritannicus(von Huene 1908)

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.

†Sphenacodon britannicus von Huene 1908
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available