Palaeohatteria

Palaeohatteria
Temporal range: Early Permian, Sakmarian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Sphenacodontia
Clade: Pantherapsida
Family: Palaeohatteriidae
Genus: Palaeohatteria
Credner, 1888
Type species
Palaeohatteria longicaudata
Credner, 1888
Synonyms

Palaeosphenodon Baur, 1889 Palaeosphenodon longicaudata Baur, 1889
Haptodus longicaudata Romer & Price, 1940

Palaeohatteria is an extinct genus of basal sphenacodonts known from the Early Permian period (Sakmarian stage) of Saxony, Germany. It contains a single species, Palaeohatteria longicaudata.[1]

  1. ^ 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.