Bohemiclavulus

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Bohemiclavulus

Extinct genus of synapsids

Bohemiclavulus is a genus of synapsids that was discovered in the Slaný Formation of the Czech Republic.[1] The type, and currently only, species is B. mirabilis.[2]

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Discovery and naming

NM 633, the holotype specimen, in 1895

The holotype, NM 633, consists only of a single spinous process fragment, and it was found in the Czech Republic.

Antonin Fritsch originally named Bohemiclavulus in 1895a with the binomial Naosaurus mirabilis.[3] It was renamed Ianthasaurus mirabilis in 1895b, and was renamed to Edaphosaurus mirabilis later that year.[4] In 2019, a new genus was created for the species.[2]

Classification

Bohemiclavulus has been clasified as a member of the Edaphosauridae by Spindler et al. (2019).[2]

The cladogram of Spindler et al. (2019) is shown simplified below:

Edaphosauridae

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Edaphosaurus mirabilis". Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  2. [2]
    Spindler, Frederik; Voigt, Sebastian; Fischer, Jan (2019). "Edaphosauridae (Synapsida, Eupelycosauria) from Europe and their relationship to North American representatives". PalZ. doi:10.1007/s12542-019-00453-2.
  3. [3]
    Fritsch, A. (1895a). Fauna der Gaskohle und der Kalksteine der Permformation Böhmens. Vol. 3. Prag: Řivnáč.
  4. [4]
    Fritsch, A. (1895b). Über neue Wirbelthiere aus der Permformation Böhmens nebst einer Übersicht der aus derselben bekannt gewordenen Arten. Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften 52: 1–17.


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