| Callibrachion Temporal range: Early Permian,
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| Life restoration of Callibrachion gaudryi by Dmitry Bogdanov. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | †Caseasauria |
| Family: | †Caseidae |
| Genus: | †Callibrachion Boule and Glangeaud, 1893 |
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Callibrachion is an extinct genus of caseid synapsids that lived in east-central France during the Lower Permian (Asselian). The holotype and only known specimen (MNHN.F.AUT490) is represented by an almost complete postcranial skeleton associated with skull fragments discovered at the end of the 19th century in the Permian Autun basin in Saône-et-Loire department, in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. It belongs to an immature individual measuring less than 1.50 m in length. Callibrachion was long considered a junior synonym of the genus Haptodus and classified among the sphenacodontid pelycosaurs. In 2015, a new study found that Callibrachion was a different animal from Haptodus and that it was a caseasaur rather than a sphenacodontid. This was confirmed in 2016 by a cladistic analysis which recovered Callibrachion as a basal caseid. Callibrachion's sharp teeth and unenlarged ribcage indicate that this animal was likely faunivorous.[1][2]
- ^ Boule, M.; Glangeaud, P. (1893). "Le Callibrachion, nouveau reptile du Permien d'Autun". Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences. 117 (19): 646–648.
- ^ Spindler, F.; Falconnet, J.; Fröbisch, J. (2015). "Callibrachion and Datheosaurus, two historical and previously mistaken basal caseasaurian synapsids from Europe". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 61 (3): 597–616. doi:10.4202/app.00221.2015.