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Edaphosaurus
Taxonomy
Edaphosaurus was named by Cope (1882). Its type is Edaphosaurus pogonias. It is the type genus of Edaphosauridae.
It was assigned to Clepsydropidae by Cope (1888) and Hay (1902); to Edaphosauria by Olson (1966); and to Edaphosauridae by Cope (1882), Case (1907), Hay (1930), Romer (1936), Romer and Price (1940), Peabody (1957), Daly (1973), Reisz (1986), Carroll (1988) and Spindler et al. (2019).
It was assigned to Clepsydropidae by Cope (1888) and Hay (1902); to Edaphosauria by Olson (1966); and to Edaphosauridae by Cope (1882), Case (1907), Hay (1930), Romer (1936), Romer and Price (1940), Peabody (1957), Daly (1973), Reisz (1986), Carroll (1988) and Spindler et al. (2019).
Species
E. boanerges, E. claviger, E. colohistion, E. credneri, E. cruciger, E. microdus, E. novomexicanus, E. pogonias (type species)
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1882 | Edaphosaurus Cope p. 448–449 |
| 1886 | Naosaurus Cope p. 545 |
| 1888 | Edaphosaurus Cope p. 287 |
| 1888 | Naosaurus Cope p. 287 |
| 1902 | Naosaurus Hay p. 432 |
| 1902 | Edaphosaurus Hay p. 433 |
| 1907 | Naosaurus Case p. 58 |
| 1907 | Edaphosaurus Case p. 68 |
| 1928 | Naosaurus Perrier p. 3085 |
| 1930 | Edaphosaurus Hay p. 57 |
| 1936 | Edaphosaurus Romer p. 90 |
| 1940 | Edaphosaurus Romer and Price p. 19 |
| 1957 | Edaphosaurus Peabody p. 947 |
| 1966 | Edaphosaurus Olson p. 302 |
| 1973 | Edaphosaurus Daly p. 587 |
| 1986 | Edaphosaurus Reisz p. 71 |
| 1988 | Edaphosaurus Carroll |
| 2019 | Edaphosaurus Spindler et al. |
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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.
G. †Edaphosaurus Cope 1882
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†Edaphosaurus boanerges Romer and Price 1940
†Edaphosaurus claviger Cope 1886
†Edaphosaurus colohistion Berman 1979
†Edaphosaurus credneri Jaekel 1910
†Edaphosaurus cruciger Cope 1878
†Edaphosaurus microdus Cope 1884
†Edaphosaurus novomexicanus Williston and Case 1913
†Edaphosaurus pogonias Cope 1882
Invalid names: Naosaurus Cope 1886 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Virgilian to the top of the Leonardian or 303.70000 to 273.01000 Ma
Collections (38 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Kasimovian - Kungurian | USA (Utah) | E. sp. (218159) | |
| Virgilian | USA (West Virginia) | E. colohistion (13049 177058) | |
| Virgilian | USA (New Mexico) | E. novomexicanus (34761) | |
| Virgilian - Wolfcampian | USA (New Mexico) | E. novomexicanus (77412) | |
| Asselian | USA (Texas) | E. sp. (173721 207494 207496) | |
| Asselian - Sakmarian | USA (Texas) | E. boanerges (11165) E. sp. (207498) | |
| Wolfcampian | USA (New Mexico) | E. novomexicanus (80770 181077) | |
| Wolfcampian | USA (Texas) | E. boanerges (22635 180978) E. sp. (80723) | |
| Cisuralian | USA (Texas) | E. boanerges (227428 227431) | |
| Permian | USA (Oklahoma) | E. pogonias (221391) | |
| Sakmarian | Germany (Saxony) | Naosaurus credneri (52522) | |
| Sakmarian | USA (Texas) | E. sp. (28125) | |
| Sakmarian - Artinskian | USA (New Mexico) | E. sp. (180988) | |
| Artinskian | USA (Oklahoma) | E. sp. (79402) | |
| Artinskian | USA (Texas) | E. boanerges (84716) E. microdus (28149) E. sp. (13080 28141 28145 28147) | |
| Artinskian - Kungurian | USA (Texas) | E. cruciger (85301) | |
| Artinskian - Kungurian | USA (Oklahoma) | Naosaurus cruciger (85733) | |
| Leonardian | USA (Oklahoma) | E. boanerges (180991) E. sp. (79815 180990) | |
| Kungurian | USA (Texas) | E. pogonias, Naosaurus claviger (28256) E. sp. (27704 28264 28267) | |
| Kungurian | USA (Oklahoma) | E. sp. (67945) |