Milosaurus

Milosaurus
Temporal range: Late Carboniferous-Early Permian, 306.95–295.0 Ma
Life reconstruction of Milosaurus mccordi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Eupelycosauria
Clade: Metopophora
Clade: Haptodontiformes
Genus: Milosaurus
DeMar, 1970
Type species
Milosaurus mccordi
DeMar, 1970

Milosaurus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsids native to Illinois that was alive during the latest Carboniferous and earliest Permian.[1][2] It was named in 1970 on the basis of FMNH 701, a partial skeleton, as well as referred material.[3]

  1. ^ The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive
  2. ^ R. R. Reisz. 1986. Pelycosauria. Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie/Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology 17A:1-102
  3. ^ R. DeMar. 1970. A primitive pelycosaur from the Pennsylvanian of Illinois. Journal of Paleontology 44(1):154-163