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Pristerodon ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	39058	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=39058

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Cotylosauria : Pristerodon

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
-	Anomodontia	Owen 1859
-	Chainosauria
-	Dicynodontia
-	Endothiodontia
genus	Pristerodon	Huxley 1868

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Pristerodon	genus	belongs to Anomodontia	stated without evidence	Broom, 1913
Pristerodon	genus	belongs to Endothiodontidae	stated with evidence	Boonstra, 1969
Pristerodon	genus	belongs to Pristerodontidae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Pristerodon	genus	belongs to Pristerodontinae	stated without evidence	King, 1988
Pristerodon	genus	belongs to Dicynodontia	stated without evidence	Rybczynski, 2000
Pristerodon	genus	belongs to Endothiodontia	stated with evidence	Fröbisch and Reisz, 2011
Pristerodon	genus	belongs to Eumantelliidae	stated without evidence	Angielczyk et al., 2014

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

265 - 260 Ma
Permian

Last Recorded Appearance

260 - 252 Ma
Permian

Environment

terrestrial (based on Amniota)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

herbivore (based on Pristerodon)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. Broom. 1913. A revision of the reptiles of the Karroo. Annals of the South African Museum 7(6):361-366

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Pristerodon agilis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Pristerodon boonstrai ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Pristerodon buffaloensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	3	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Pristerodon mackayi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	26	265 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Pristerodon mirus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Pristerodon oudebergensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Pristerodon platyceps ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Pristerodon vanhoepeni ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	3	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Pristerodon whaitsi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1868	Pristerodon Huxley
1904	Opisthoctenodon Broom
1913	Pristerodon Broom
1931	Cerataelurus Broom
1935	Brachyuraniscus Broili and Schroeder
1935	Eumantellia Broom
1937	Newtonella Broom fig. 13
1953	Hueneus Toerien
1953	Parringtoniella Toerien
1969	Brachyuraniscus Boonstra
1969	Pristerodon Boonstra

Year	Name and Author
1988	Brachyuraniscus Carroll
1988	Cerataelurus Carroll
1988	Eumantellia Carroll
1988	Newtonella Carroll
1988	Parringtoniella Carroll
1988	Pristerodon Carroll
1988	Hueneus King
1988	Pristerodon King
2000	Pristerodon Rybczynski
2011	Pristerodon Fröbisch and Reisz
2014	Pristerodon Angielczyk et al.

References

Broom R. (1913) A revision of the reptiles of the Karroo, Annals of the South African Museum 7 6, 361-366

Broom R. (1904) On two new endothiodont genera (Prodicynodon and Opisthoctenodon), Records of the Albany Museum 1, 69-73

Broom R. (1931) Notices of some new genera and species of Karroo fossil reptiles, Records of the Albany Museum 4, 161-166

Broili F., Schroeder J. (1935) Über einige primitive Anomodontier-Schädel aus den unteren Beaufort-Schichten, Ibidem Sitzber. Bayer. Ak. Wiss., Math.-Naturw. Abt, 223-278

Broom R. (1937) A further contribution to our knowledge of the fossil reptiles of the Karroo, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107 3, 299-318

Toerien M. J. (1953) The evolution of the palate in South African Anomodontia and its classificatory significance, Palaeontologia Africana 1, 49-117

Boonstra L. D. (1969) The fauna of the Tapinocephalus Zone (Beaufort Beds of the Karoo), Annals of the South African Museum 56 1, 1-73

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

King G. M. (1988) Anomodontia, Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology, 1-174

Fröbisch J., Reisz R. R. (2011) The postcranial anatomy of Suminia getmanovi (Synapsida: Anomodontia), the earliest known arboreal tetrapod, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 162, 661-698

Angielczyk K. D., Steyer J. S., et al (2014) Permian and Triassic Dicynodont (Therapsida: Anomodontia) Faunas of the Luangwa Basin, Zambia: Taxonomic Update and Implications for Dicynodont Biogeography and Biostratigraphy, Early Evolutionary History of the Synapsida, 93-138 doi:10.1007/978-94-007-6841-3_7

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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