Dimetrodon gigashomegenes Case, 1907
Synapsida
Sphenacodontidae
Sphenacodontinae
Early Permian
Arroyo Fm, Clear Fork Gr (Kungurian)
Texas, US
Length: 3.3 m
Recent studies of well preserved bones of Dimetrodon indicate that the sail did not extend to the tip of the neural spines. D. gigashomogenes is a large species of Dimetrodon with a rather short skull.
References:
Rega, E. A., Noriega, K., Sumida, S. S., Huttenlocker, A., Lee, A., & Kennedy, B. (2012). Healed fractures in the neural spines of an associated skeleton of Dimetrodon: implications for dorsal sail morphology and function. Fieldiana Life and Earth Sciences, 104-111.
June 9, 2016
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