Knoxosaurus

<i>Knoxosaurus</i>

Knoxosaurus

Extinct genus of synapsids

Knoxosaurus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsids containing the species Knoxosaurus niteckii that existed approximately 279.5 to 268 million years ago.[1] It was named by American paleontologist Everett C. Olson in 1962 on the basis of fragmentary fossils from Middle Permian-age deposits in the San Angelo Formation of Texas in the United States.[2] Olson placed Knoxosaurus in a new infraorder called Eotheriodontia, which he considered a transitional group between the more reptile-like "pelycosaurs" and the more mammal-like therapsids. Knoxosaurus and Olson's other eotheriodonts were later considered to be undiagnostic remains of basal synapsids, no more closely related to therapsids than are other pelycosaur-grade synapsids.[3]

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  1. [1]
    "Fossilworks: Knoxosaurus niteckii". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  2. [2]
    Olson, E.C. (1962). "Late Permian terrestrial vertebrates, USA and USSR". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 52 (2): 1–224. doi:10.2307/1005904.
  3. [3]
    Sidor, C.A.; Hopson, J.A. (1995). "The taxonomic status of the Upper Permian eutheriodont therapsids of the San Angelo Formation (Guadalupian), Texas". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 15 (3 Suppl.): 53A. doi:10.1080/02724634.1995.10011277.


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