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Admetophoneus Temporal range: Middle Permian
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Synapsida
Clade:	Therapsida
Suborder:	†Dinocephalia
Genus:	†Admetophoneus Efremov, 1954
Species:	†A. kargalensis
Binomial name
†Admetophoneus kargalensis Efremov, 1954

Admetophoneus is a dubious genus of non-mammalian synapsid from Russia. Its type and only species is Admetophoneus kargalensis.

History

Admetophoneus was named by the Russian paleontologist Ivan Efremov in 1954, based on some teeth, a fragmentary maxilla, and a humerus. It was originally classified as a member of Brithopodidae. Later, it was classified in Phthinosuchidae. Recent study, however, has shown that it is a member of Anteosauria, but lacks diagnostic features. It is essentially identical to the contemporaneous Titanophoneus, and could be synonymous with it, but its poor preservation means that it cannot be proven.

See also

• List of therapsids

References

1. ^ Efremov, I. A. (1954). Фауна наземных позвоночных в пермских медистых песчаниках западного Приуралья [The terrestrial vertebrate fauna from the Permian copper sandstones of the western Fore-Urals]. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta, Akademiya Nauk SSSR (in Russian). 54.
2. Ivakhnenko, M. F. (2008). "Cranial morphology and evolution of Permian Dinomorpha (Eotherapsida) of Eastern Europe". Paleontological Journal. 42 (9). doi:10.1134/S0031030108090013.
3. Kammerer, Christian F. (2011). "Systematics of the Anteosauria (Therapsida: Dinocephalia)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 9 (2): 261–304. doi:10.1080/14772019.2010.492645.

• The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive

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