Euconcordia

Euconcordia; Temporal range: Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
	Holotype skull
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Family:	†Captorhinidae
Genus:	†Euconcordia; Reisz, Haridy & Müller, 2016
Species:	†E. cunninghami
Binomial name
	†Euconcordia cunninghami; (Müller & Reisz, 2005)
Synonyms
	Concordia Müller & Reisz, 2005 (preoccupied);

Euconcordia is an

Late Carboniferous captorhinid known from Greenwood County, Kansas of the United States.^[1]

Description

Euconcordia is known from the

million years ago. Euconcordia was originally thought to be the basalmost known member of Captorhinidae.^[1] A novel phylogenic study of primitive reptile relationships by Müller & Reisz in 2006 recovered Thuringothyris as a sister taxon of the Captorhinidae, and therefore, by definition, Thuringothyris represents the basalmost known captorhinid.^[2] The same results were obtained in later phylogenic analyses.^[3]^[4] Euconcordia is still the earliest known captorhinid as all other captorhinid taxa are known only from Permian deposits.^[2]

Etymology

Euconcordia was first named by Johannes Müller and

crustacean Concordia Kingsley, 1880 (currently considered a junior synonym of Latreutes Stimpson, 1860). Reisz, Haridy & Müller (2016) coined a replacement name Euconcordia.^[5]