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Taxonomic status of Edaphosaurus raymondi Case

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

S. P. Modesto  and
R. R. Reisz
S. P. Modesto
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Erindale College, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6, Canada
R. R. Reisz
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Erindale College, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6, Canada
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The Edaphosauridae is an important family of primitive synapsids that includes the oldest known terrestrial herbivorous vertebrates. Until the recent description of a new, primitive edaphosaur from the Upper Pennsylvanian of Kansas (Reisz and Berman, 1986), the herbivorous Edaphosaurus was the only known member of the family. Accordingly, fragmentary edaphosaurid materials from Europe and North America had been assigned to Edaphosaurus on the basis of the characteristic neural spine morphology.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 64 , Issue 6 , November 1990 , pp. 1049 - 1051
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