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Gordodon
Taxonomy
Gordodon was named by Lucas et al. (2018).
It was assigned to Edaphosauridae by Lucas et al. (2018).
It was assigned to Edaphosauridae by Lucas et al. (2018).
Species
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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2018 | Gordodon Lucas 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.
Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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S.G. Lucas et al. 2018 | Gordodon is a medium-sized edaphosaur (presacral length ~1 m) distinguished from the other edaphosaurid genera by: an unique dental apparatus consisting of large chisel-like incisors in the premaxilla and dentary (dentary incisors
inferred from empty alveolus) separated by a long diastema from a relatively short row of peg-like maxillary and dentary cheek teeth and tooth plates with small (<1 mm) teeth on the interior surface of the mandible; preorbital skull length subequal to postorbital skull length; a relatively short nasalmaxilla suture; cervical and anterior dorsal vertebrae with relatively gracile centra that are doublekeeled ventrally; and cervical and dorsal vertebrae have long neural spines that bear up to 12 small, thorn-like lateral tubercles randomly distributed on each side. |
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 |
Collections
No collection or age range data are available