Callibrachion
Callibrachion is an extinct genus of caseasaur. It was at least 1.5 metres (5 ft) in length. It lived during the Early Permian.
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | †Caseasauria |
Family: | †Caseidae |
Genus: | †Callibrachion Boule and Glangeaud, 1893 |
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Discovery and history

Restoration

Skeleton
It was originally described in 1893 on a basis of a specimen Early Permian deposits in northeastern France.[1] It was later considered a synonym of Haptodus by several authors, but subsequent examination has found it be a caseid rather a sphenacodont.[2] This was confirmed by cladistic analysis, which recovered Callibrachion as a basal caseid [3]
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References
- Boule M., Glangeaud P. (1893). "Le Callibrachion, nouveau reptile du Permien d'Autun". Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences. 117 (19): 646–648.
- Frederik Spindler, Jocelyn Falconnet, and Jörg Fröbisch (2015). "Callibrachion and Datheosaurus, two historical and previously mistaken basal caseasaurian synapsids from Europe". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 61. doi:10.4202/app.00221.2015.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
- Neil Brocklehurst, Robert Reisz, Vincent Fernandez, and Jörg Fröbisch (2016). "A Re-Description of 'Mycterosaurus' smithae, an Early Permian Eothyridid, and Its Impact on the Phylogeny of Pelycosaurian-Grade Synapsids". PLoS ONE. 11 (6): e0156810. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0156810. PMC 4917111. PMID 27333277.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
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