| 词条 | Steppesaurus |
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| fossil_range = | image = Steppesaurus1DB.jpg | genus = Steppesaurus | parent_authority = Olson & Beerbower, 1953 | species = gurleyi | authority = Olson & Beerbower, 1953 }} Steppesaurus is an extinct genus of basal Eupelycosauria belonging to the Sphenacodontidae, related to Dimetrodon and Sphenacodon, from the Permian San Angelo Formation of Texas. A maxilla and dentary, holotype FMNH UR 148, were at the Pease River found by Everett Claire Olson in 1950, who named the genus in 1953, together with James R. Beerbower, after J. Steppe who had assisted in the excavation.[1] The body length of Steppesaurus has been estimated as high as eighteen feet, making it the largest known sphenacodontid,[2] but this failed to take into account that its teeth, as restored, were more widely spaced. It likely had less teeth in its maxilla, which as a whole was not particularly large. Olson in 1953 placed Steppesaurus in the Sphenacodontidae but in 1962 changed this to the Phthinosuchidae, making it a member of the Therapsida, as support for his hypothesis that these had been found in the Early Permian.[3] This has proven to be very controversial. See also{{portal|Paleontology}}
References1. ^E.C. Olson and J.R. Beerbower. 1953. "The San Angelo Formation, Permian of Texas, and its Vertebrates". Journal of Geology 61(5): 389-423 {{Taxonbar|from=Q1997624}}{{Paleo-Synapsid-stub}}2. ^Edwin H. Colbert, 1965, The Age of Reptiles, Dover Publications, 2012 edition, p. 48 3. ^E.C. Olson. 1962. "Late Permian terrestrial vertebrates, U.S.A. and U.S.S.R." Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 52(2): 1-224 4 : Permian synapsids of North America|Sphenacodont genera|Fossil taxa described in 1953|Taxa named by Everett C. Olson |
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