| Thelerpeton | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | †Parareptilia |
| Order: | †Procolophonomorpha |
| Family: | †Procolophonidae |
| Subfamily: | †Procolophoninae |
| Genus: | †Thelerpeton Modesto & Damiani,2003 |
| Type species | |
| †Thelerpeton oppressus (Gow, 1977 [originallyThelegnathus oppressus]) | |
Thelerpeton is anextinctgenus ofprocolophonineprocolophonidparareptile from middleTriassic (earlyAnisian stage) deposits ofFree State Province,South Africa. It is known from theholotypeBP/1/4538, a nearly completeskull. It was collected by the South African palaeontologist,James W. Kitching from Hugoskop in the Rouxville District and referred to subzone B of theCynognathus Assemblage Zone of theBurgersdorp Formation,Beaufort Group (Karoo Basin). It was first named by Sean P. Modesto and Ross J. Damiani in2003 and thetype species isThelerpeton oppressus. It was first assigned to a species ofThelegnathus (now considered to be anomen dubium),Thelegnathus oppressus.[1][2]
In theirphylogenetic analyses, Butleret al. (2023) definedThelerpeton as a sister taxon toTeratophon andProcolophon or as a sister taxon to clade consisting ofTeratophon andProcolophon withinProcolophoninae. The results are shown in two cladograms below:[3]
Analyses 1 and 3: Strict consensus of 760 and 18 most parsimonious trees (MPTs).
| Analysis 2: Single MPT.
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