Tetraceratops insignis Matthew 1908 (therapsid)

Osteichthyes - Therapsida

Full reference: W. D. Matthew. 1908. A four-horned pelycosaurian from the Permian of Texas. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 24:183-185

Belongs to Tetraceratops according to M. Laurin and R. R. Reisz 1996

See also Hay 1930, Matthew 1908, Reisz 1986 and Romer and Price 1940

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: AMNH 4526, a partial skull (fairly complete skull with one ramus of the lower jaw complete). Its type locality is Coffee Creek, 34 (Arroyo Formation), which is in a Kungurian terrestrial claystone/sandstone in the Arroyo Formation of Texas.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Coffee Creek, 34 (Arroyo Formation)

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