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Kuwavaatakdectes

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Kuwavaatakdectes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Diadectomorpha
Family: Diadectidae
Genus: Kuwavaatakdectes
Ponstein, MacDougall & Fröbisch, 2024
Species:
K. sanmiguelensis
Binomial name
Kuwavaatakdectes sanmiguelensis
(Lewis & Vaughn, 1965)
Synonyms

Oradectes Kissel, 2010

Kuwavaatakdectes is a genus of diadectid from the early Permian of Colorado.

Taxonomy

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Kuwavaatakdectes was originally named as a species of Diadectes, D. sanmiguelensis, in 1965. However, a 2010 dissertation found it to be generically distinct from the Diadectes type species, informally renaming it Oradectes, although this genus is not valid under ICZN rules due to it having been coined in a dissertation.[1] A paper published in 2024 formally erected Kuwavaatakdectes for the sole species Kuwavaatakdectes sanmiguelensis.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Kissel, R. (2010). Morphology, Phylogeny, and Evolution of Diadectidae (Cotylosauria: Diadectomorpha) (PhD thesis). Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 185. hdl:1807/24357.
  2. ^ Ponstein, J.; MacDougall, M.; Fröbisch, J. (2024). "A comprehensive phylogeny and revised taxonomy of Diadectomorpha with a discussion on the origin of tetrapod herbivory". Royal Society Open Science. 11 (6): 231566. doi:10.1098/rsos.231566. PMC 11257076.