Driveria
Extinct genus of therapsids
Driveria Temporal range: 279.5–268 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Suborder: | †Dinocephalia |
Genus: | †Driveria Olson, 1962 |
Species: | †D. ponderosa |
Binomial name | |
†Driveria ponderosa Olson, 1962 |
Driveria is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsids the Lower Permian of San Angelo Formation, Texas.[1] It is mostly known from several postcranial bones, including the scapula, pelvis, and a few vertebrae and ribs, although a fragment of the skull that might pertain to the upper temporal fenestra is also associated with this species.[2]
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References
- ^ a b "Fossilworks: Driveria".
- ^ Olson, Everett C. (1962). "Late Permian Terrestrial Vertebrates, U. S. A. and U. S. S. R.". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 52 (2): 1–224.
- The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive
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- See also: Pelycosauria
- Phthinosuchia
- Theriodontia
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