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Owenetta âśť

Description

Owenetta is an extinct genus of owenettid procolophonian parareptile. Fossils have been found from the Beaufort Group in the Karoo Basin of South Africa. Although most procolophonians lived during the Triassic, Owenetta existed during the Wuchiapingian and Changhsingian stages of the Late Permian as well as the early Induan stage of the Early Triassic. It is the type genus of the family Owenettidae, and can be distinguished from other related taxa in that the posterior portion of the supratemporal bears a lateral notch and that the pineal foramen is surrounded by a depressed parietal surface on the skull table.


Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)4823654https://www.gbif.org/species/4823654
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)37521https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=37521
Rankgenus
Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Owenettidae : Owenetta
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SauropsidaHuxley 1864
classReptiliaLaurenti 1768
subclassParareptiliaOlson 1947
-Procolophonomorpha
-Procolophonia
superfamilyProcolophonoideaRomer 1956
familyOwenettidaeBroom 1939
genusOwenettaBroom 1939
Scientific NameOwenetta Broom, 1939
Name Published InAnn. Transv. Mus., 19
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Owenettagenusbelongs to Owenettidaestated with evidenceBroom, 1939
Owenettagenusbelongs to NyctiphruretidaeimpliedCarroll, 1988
Owenettagenusbelongs to Owenettidaestated with evidenceLee, 1995
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)3
First Recorded Appearance260 - 254 Ma
Permian
Last Recorded Appearance252 - 247 Ma
Phanerozoic
Environmentterrestrial (based on Amniota)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)R. Broom. 1939. A New Type of Cotylosaurian, Owenetta rubidgei. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 19(3):319-321
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owenetta

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Owenetta kitchingorum âśť
species
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
2252 Ma
Permian
252 Ma
Permian
Owenetta rubidgei âśť
species
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
7260 Ma
Permian
260 Ma
Permian

Obsolete Names

NameSourceTaxon RankTaxonomy
Colubrifer campi Carroll, 1982GBIFspeciesAnimalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Owenettidae : Colubrifer campi

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1939Owenetta Broom pp. 319, 321 figs. 1, 2
1982Colubrifer Carroll p. 183
1982Colubrifer campi Carroll p. 184 figs. 1-3, 4C
1985Colubrifer Benton p. 154
1988Colubrifer Carroll
1988Owenetta Carroll
YearName and Author
1995Owenetta Lee pp. 508, 512 fig. 22
1996Owenetta deBraga and Reisz p. 308
1997Owenetta Lee pp. 256, 260 fig. 22
2002Owenetta Reisz and Scott p. 244
2007Owenetta Modesto and Damiani p. 347 fig. 8
2008Owenetta Säilä p. 1202

References

Broom R. (1939) A New Type of Cotylosaurian, Owenetta rubidgei, Annals of the Transvaal Museum 19 3, 319-321
Carroll R. L. (1982) A Short Limbed Lizard from the Lystrosaurus Zone (Lower Triassic) of South Africa, Journal of Paleontology 56 1, 183-190
Benton M. J. (1985) Classification and phylogeny of the diapsid reptiles, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 84 2, 97-164
Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698
Lee M. S. Y. (1995) Historical Burden in Systematics and the Interrelationships of Parareptiles, Biological Reviews 70 3, 459-547
Lee M. S. Y. (1997) Pareisaur phylogeny and the origin of turtles, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 120 3, 197-280
Reisz R. R., Scott D. (2002) Owenetta kitchingorum, sp. nov., a small parareptile (Procolophonia: Owenettidae) from the Lower Triassic of South Africa, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22 2, 244-256
Modesto S. P., Damiani R. (2007) The Procolophonoid Reptile Sauropareion anoplus from the Lowermost Triassic of South Africa, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27 2, 337-349
Säilä L. K. (2008) The Osteology and Affinities of Anomoiodon liliensterni, a Procolophonid Reptile from the Lower Triassic Buntsandstein of Germany, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28 4, 1199-1205
GBIF/Paleo Database - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Ann. Transv. Mus., 19 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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