Hypselohaptodus Temporal range:
Cisuralian,
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Sphenacomorpha |
Clade: | Sphenacodontia |
Genus: | †
Hypselohaptodus Spindler, 2019 |
Species: | †H. grandis
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Binomial name | |
†Hypselohaptodus grandis (Paton, 1974)
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Hypselohaptodus is a genus of sphenacodont synapsid from the Cisuralian of England. It contains a single species, Hypselohaptodus grandis, and is known only from a single specimen, a partial left maxilla, which is hosted at the Warwick County Museum. It was collected at Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England, from the Kenilworth Sandstone Formation ( Warwickshire Group), dating to the earliest Asselian stage of the Cisuralian series, about 299 million years ago. [1]
H. grandis was originally assigned to Haptodus by Paton in 1974. In 2015 it was determined that H. grandis and Haptodus garnettensis were not congeneric with Haptodus baylei [2] and in 2019 Frederik Spindler reassigned H. grandis to a new genus, Hypselohaptodus. [3]