Casea

Casea
Temporal range: Early Permian,
C. broilii skeleton in the Field Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Caseasauria
Family: Caseidae
Genus: Casea
Williston, 1910
Type species
Casea broilii
Williston, 1910

Casea is a genus of herbivorous caseid synapsids that lived during the late Lower Permian (Kungurian) in what is now Texas, United States. The genus is only represented by its type species, Casea broilii, named by Samuel Wendell Williston in 1910.[1] The species is represented by a skull associated with a skeleton (the holotype FMNH UC 656), a second skull (FMNH UC 698), a partial skull with a better preserved dentition than that of the preceding skulls (FMNH UC 1011), and several incomplete postcranial skeletons.[2] Three other Casea species were later erected, but these are considered today to be invalid or belonging to different genera.[3][4][5] Casea was a small animal with a length of about 1.20 m and a weight of around 20 kg.[6][7]

  1. ^ Williston, S.W. (1910). "New Permian reptiles: Rhachitomous vertebrae". Journal of Geology. 18 (7): 585–601. Bibcode:1910JG.....18..585W. doi:10.1086/621786. S2CID 129153998.
  2. ^ Olson, E.C. (1968). "The family Caseidae". Fieldiana: Geology. 17: 225–349.
  3. ^ Maddin, H.C.; Sidor, C.A.; Reisz, R.R. (2008). "Cranial anatomy of Ennatosaurus tecton (Synapsida: Caseidae) from the Middle Permian of Russia and the evolutionary relationships of Caseidae". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 28 (1): 176. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2008)28[160:CAOETS]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 44064927.
  4. ^ Reisz, R.R.; Maddin, H.C.; Fröbisch, J.; Falconnet, J. (2011). "A new large caseid (Synapsida, Caseasauria) from the Permian of Rodez (France), including a reappraisal of "Casea" rutena Sigogneau-Russell & Russell, 1974". Geodiversitas. 33 (2): 227–246. doi:10.5252/g2011n2a2. S2CID 129458820.
  5. ^ Romano, M.; Nicosia, U. (2015). "Cladistic analysis of Caseidae (Caseasauria, Synapsida): using the gap-weighting method to include taxa based on incomplete specimens". Palaeontology. 58 (6): 1109–1130. doi:10.1111/pala.12197. S2CID 86489484.
  6. ^ Romer, A.S.; Price, L.I. (1940). "Review of the pelycosauria". Geological Society of America Special Paper. Geological Society of America Special Papers. 28: 1–538. doi:10.1130/SPE28-p1.
  7. ^ LeBlanc, A.R.H.; Reisz, R.R. (2014). "New Postcranial Material of the Early Caseid Casea broilii Williston, 1910 (Synapsida: Caseidae) with a Review of the Evolution of the sacrum in Paleozoic Non-Mammalian Synapsids". PLOS ONE. 9 (12): e115734. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...9k5734L. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0115734. PMC 4278720. PMID 25545624.

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