Kahneria seltina

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Kahneria seltina

Kahneria seltina is an average-sized poorly known representative of the multiple tooth-rowed captorhinids. It is known from tooth plates of lower and upper jaws, skull fragments and few scrappy postcranial material coming from terrestrial red beds of the Middle Permian of North Texas. The tooth plates bear five rows of more or less conical teeth. K. seltina is, without much doubt, a member of the moradisaurines.

†Kahneria seltina Olson 1962
Some Facts
Family: Captorhinidae Etymology of genus: named after the discoverer of the type locality (today called Kahn Quarry), Jack Kahn, staff member of the University of Chicago and one of E.C. Olson's collaborators at that time Etymology of species: named after the paleontologist Richard J. Seltin Paleography: "Eastern Shelf" of Midland Basin, northwestern Pangaea Locality: Knox County, Texas, USA Horizon: San Angelo Formation (Pease River Group) Synonyms: -
Stratigraphic Range: Middle Permian: Upper Leonardian or Lower Guadalupian*

* The problem of exact stratigraphic position of San Angelo Formation has still not entirely been solved. In official geological maps of the USGS or the Texas Bureau of Economic Geology the San Angelo Formation is assigned to the Guadalupian series.

References

OLSON, E.C. (1962): Late Permian Terrestrial Vertebrates, U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., ns, 52(2), pp. 1-224

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