Tappenosaurus
| Tappenosaurus Temporal range:
Middle Permian | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Family: | †Sphenacodontidae (?) |
| Genus: | †Tappenosaurus Olson and Beerbower, 1953 |
| Type species | |
| †Tappenosaurus magnus Olson and Beerbower, 1953
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Tappenosaurus ("Tappen's lizard") is an extinct
paleontologists Everett C. Olson and James Beerbower described the genus in 1953 based on three specimens that were uncovered from the San Angelo Formation.[1]
It was named for Neil Tappen, who found the type specimen in 1951 as a member of the field party.
Description
The first specimen (the
synapsids that lived later in the Permian.[2]
References
- ^ doi:10.1086/626109.
- ^ Olson, E.C. (1955). "Parallelism in the evolution of the Permian reptilian faunas of the Old and New Worlds". Fieldiana. 37 (13): 395. Retrieved 8 September 2022.