Eocasea
| Eocasea | |
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| Holotype fossil | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | †Caseasauria |
| Family: | †Caseidae |
| Genus: | †Eocasea Reisz & Fröbisch, 2014 |
| Type species | |
| †Eocasea martini Reisz & Fröbisch, 2014
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Eocasea is an extinct
Late Pennsylvanian of Kansas. It is known from a single type species
, Eocasea martini.
Description
Eocasea is the oldest and most
plesiomorphic features for synapsids, meaning that Eocasea inherited a carnivorous lifestyle from similarly small-bodied carnivorous ancestors of synapsids. As the earliest known caseid, Eocasea represents one of the first transitions from carnivory to herbivory in tetrapods.[1]
References
- PMID 24739998.
