Oromycter
Name: Oromycter
.
Phonetic: Or-o-mik-ter.
Named By: R. R. Reisz - 2005.
Classification: Chordata, Synapsida,
Pelycosauria, Caseasauria, Caseidae.
Species: O. dolesorum
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Skull roughly about 8 centimetres long.
Total size uncertain.
Known locations: USA, Oklahoma - Garber
Formation.
Time period: Permian.
Fossil representation: Partial remains.
Oromycter is a genus of caseid pelycosaur that lived in Oklahoma during the Permian. As a caseid, Oromycter would have been related to genera such as Casea and Cotylorhynchus.
Further reading
- Oromycter, a New Caseid from the Lower
Permian of Oklahoma. -
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(4):905-910. - R. R.
Reisz - 2005.
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