Kapes (genus)

Kapes
Temporal range: Lower - Middle Triassic 252–237 Ma
Skeleton of Kapes bentoni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: †Parareptilia
Order: †Procolophonomorpha
Family: †Procolophonidae
Subfamily: †Procolophoninae
Genus: †Kapes
Ivakhnenko, 1975
Species
  • †K. amaenus Ivakhnenko, 1975 (type)
  • †K. komiensis Ivakhnenko, 1975 [originally Macrophon komiensis]
  • †K. majmesculae Ochev, 1968 [originally Tichvinskia majmesculae]
  • †K. bentoni Spencer and Storrs, 2002
Skull of Kapes bentoni

Kapes is an extinct genus of procolophonid parareptile from the Lower and Middle Triassic of the United Kingdom and Russia. The type species K. amaenus was named in 1975 from the banks of the Vychegda River in the Komi Republic of Russia. In 1983, a new species was brought into the genus, K. majmesculae. K. majmesculae was first named in 1968 as a member of the genus Tichvinskia. A third Russian species, K. serotinus, was named in 1991. In 2002, Kapes bentoni was described from the Middle Triassic Otter Sandstone Formation of Devon, England, extending the geographic range of Kapes. In the same paper, K. serotinus was synonymized with K. majmesculae and another Russian species was assigned to Kapes called K. komiensis. K. komiensis was first named in 1975 (in the same paper K. amaenus was named in) as a member of the genus Macrophon.[1]

  1. ^ Spencer, P. S.; Storrs, G. W. (2002). "A Re-evaluation of Small Tetrapods from the Middle Triassic Otter Sandstone Formation of Devon, England". Palaeontology. 45 (3): 447. Bibcode:2002Palgy..45..447S. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00245.