Eosyodon

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Eosyodon
Temporal range: Kungurian
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Family: Sphenacodontidae
Genus: Eosyodon
Olson, 1962
Species:
E. hudsoni
Binomial name
Eosyodon hudsoni
Olson, 1962

Eosyodon is a

synapsids from the Permian of Texas. Its type and only species is Eosyodon hudsoni. Though it was originally interpreted as an early therapsid, it is probably a member of Sphenacodontidae, the family of synapsids that includes Dimetrodon
.

Eosyodon hudsoni was named by

pelycosaurs and later therapsids.[2]

In 1995, C. A. Sidor and J. A. Hopson presented a reevaluation of Olson's eotheriodonts at the annual conference of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, and concluded that they were based on caseid and sphenacodontid pelycosaurs.[3] In 2011, Christian Kammerer agreed with their evaluation and concluded that Eosyodon was a sphenacodontid.[4] He regarded Eosyodon as a nomen dubium.

Olson regarded the San Angelo fauna, including Eosyodon, as being from the early Guadalupian, chronologically equivalent to the Kazanian therapsid fauna of Russia.[5] However, the San Angelo Formation is now regarded as belonging to the Kungurian stage of the Permian.[6][7] As such, Eosyodon is somewhat older than the earliest definitive therapsids.

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Bibliography

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  • Kammerer, Christian F. (2011). "Systematics of the Anteosauria (Therapsida: Dinocephalia)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 9 (2): 261–304.
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  • Lucas, Spencer G; Golubev, Valeriy K (2019). "Age and duration of Olson's Gap, a global hiatus in the Permian tetrapod fossil record". Permophiles. 67: 20–23. .
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  • Sidor, C. A.; Hopson, J. A. (1995). "The taxonomic status of the Upper Permian eotheriodont therapsids of the San Angelo Formation (Guadalupian), Texas". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 15 (3A): 53A.