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Romeria
Taxonomy
Romeria was named by Price (1937). It is not extant. Its type is Romeria texana. It is the type genus of Romeriidae.
It was assigned to Romeriidae by Price (1937) and Clark and Carroll (1973); and to Captorhinidae by Heaton (1979), Carroll (1988), Laurin and Reisz (1995) and Müller and Reisz (2006).
It was assigned to Romeriidae by Price (1937) and Clark and Carroll (1973); and to Captorhinidae by Heaton (1979), Carroll (1988), Laurin and Reisz (1995) and Müller and Reisz (2006).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1937 | Romeria Price |
| 1973 | Romeria Clark and Carroll p. 357 |
| 1979 | Romeria Heaton p. 1 figs. 33, 34 |
| 1988 | Romeria Carroll |
| 1995 | Romeria Laurin and Reisz p. 202 |
| 2006 | Romeria Müller and Reisz p. 505 fig. 2 |
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G. †Romeria Price 1937
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†Romeria prima Clark and Carroll 1973
†Romeria texana Price 1937
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| L.I. Price 1937 | Skull of type small, 5.3 cm. in length. Parietal with downwardly projecting flange. Pre-maxilla recurved. Tooth row differentiated. Premaxilla with large median incisor and four smaller teeth following. The maxilla with the sixth tooth greatly enlarged. Teeth slightly compressed and recurved. Pre- and post-frontals separated over orbit. Sculpture shallow, radiating from centres of ossification. | |
| J. Clark and R. L. Carroll 1973 | Large Lower Permian romeriid. Premaxillary tooth row inclined at an angle from the maxillary tooth row. Four to five premaxillary teeth. Twenty to twenty-five maxillary teeth. Fifth and sixth teeth slightly larger than remainder. No tabular, no ectopterygoid. No retroarticular process. Opisthotic incompletely ossified and not extending to squamosal. Cheek region forming an angle of more than 65° with the skull roof. Parietal deeply embayed for postparietals. Where known, short denticles scattered on anterior face of transverse flange of pterygoid rather than long denticles on ventral margin. Low neural spines on anterior vertebrae. |
Measurements
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| Reference: Kissel et al. 2002 | |||||