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Dimetrodon borealis

Sphenacodontidae

Taxonomy
Bathygnathus borealis was named by Leidy (1853). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is McLeod farm well, which is in an Artinskian terrestrial shale/sandstone in the Orby Head Formation of Canada.

It was recombined as Dimetrodon borealis by Brink et al. (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1853Bathygnathus borealis Leidy p. 404
1859Bathygnathus borealis Owen p. 141
1860Bathygnathus borealis Owen p. 252
1861Bathygnathus borealis Owen p. 279
1870Bathygnathus borealis Cope p. 119
1879Bathygnathus borealis Miller p. 152
1895Bathygnathus borealis Lyman figs. Pl. 607
1896Bathygnathus borealis Marsh p. 147
1901Bathygnatus borealis Nopcsa p. 196
1902Bathygnathus borealis Hay p. 491
1905Bathygnathus borealis Lambe p. 20
1911Bathygnathus borealis Lambe p. 6
1930Bathygnathus borealis Hay p. 56
1986Bathygnathus borealis Reisz
2015Dimetrodon borealis Brink et al. p. 1115

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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
genusDimetrodon
speciesborealis()

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.

†Dimetrodon borealis Leidy 1853
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:15:35
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:15:35
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Artinskian or 290.10000 to 279.30000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Artinskian290.1 - 279.3Canada (Prince Edward Island) Bathygnathus borealis (type locality: 48897)