Palaeohatteriidae

The Palaeohatteriidae[1] are an extinct family of basal sphenacodonts known from the Early Permian period (Asselian-Sakmarian stages) of Saxony, Germany.[2] Two genera are known: Palaeohatteria[3] and Pantelosaurus.[4]

Palaeohatteriidae
Temporal range: Early Permian, Asselian–Sakmarian
Palaeohatteria longicaudata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Haptodontiformes
Clade: Sphenacomorpha
Clade: Sphenacodontia
Family: †Palaeohatteriidae
Baur, 1889
Type species
†Palaeohatteria longicaudata
Genera

Classification

The cladogram below shows the phylogenetic positions of Palaeohatteria and Pantelosaurus phylogenetic position among other sphenacodonts following Fröbisch et al. (2011).[5]

 
 

Edaphosauridae

 
Sphenacodontia
 

Haptodus garnettensis

 
 
 

Palaeohatteria longicaudata

 
 

Pantelosaurus saxonicus

 
 

Ianthodon schultzei

 
 
 

Cutleria wilmarthi

 
Sphenacodontoidea
 

Therapsida

 
Sphenacodontidae
 

Secodontosaurus obtusidens

 
 
 

Cryptovenator hirschbergeri

 
 
 

Sphenacodon

 
 

Ctenospondylus

 
 

Dimetrodon

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Spindler (2016) utilized use of the name Palaeohatteriidae for the clade comprising Palaeohatteria and Pantelosaurus but not Ianthodon.[2]

References

  1. G. Baur. 1889. Palaeohatteria (Credner), and the Proganosauria. American Journal of Science 27(220):310-313
  2. Spindler, F. 2016. Morphological description and taxonomic status of (Synapsida: Sphenacodontia). Freiberger Forschungshefte C550(23): 1–57. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321129043_Morphological_description_and_taxonomic_status_of_Palaeohatteria_and_Pantelosaurus_Synapsida_Sphenacodontia
  3. Carl Friedrich Heinrich Credner (1888). "Die Stegocephalen und Saurier aus dem Rothliegenden des Plauen'schen Grundes bei Dresden. VII Theil: Palaeohatteria longicaudata Cred". Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft. 40: 490–558.
  4. Friedrich von Huene (1925). "Ein neuer Pelycosaurier aus der unteren Permformaiton Sachens". Geologische und Paläontologische Abhandlungen. 18: 215–264.
  5. Jörg Fröbisch, Rainer R. Schoch, Johannes Müller, Thomas Schindler and Dieter Schweiss (2011). "A new basal sphenacodontid synapsid from the Late Carboniferous of the Saar-Nahe Basin, Germany" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 56 (1): 113–120. doi:10.4202/app.2010.0039.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
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