Dimetrodon borealis Leidy 1853

Osteichthyes - Synapsida - Sphenacodontidae

Alternative combinations: Bathygnathus borealis, Bathygnatus borealis

Full reference: J. Leidy. 1853. [Fragment of a jaw of an extinct saurian animal]. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 6:404

Belongs to Dimetrodon according to K. S. Brink et al. 2015

See also Cope 1870, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Lambe 1905, Lambe 1911, Leidy 1853, Lyman 1895, Marsh 1896, Miller 1879, Nopcsa 1901, Owen 1859, Owen 1860, Owen 1861 and Reisz 1986

Sister taxa: Dimetrodon angelensis, Dimetrodon booneorum, Dimetrodon dollovianus, Dimetrodon giganhomogenes, Dimetrodon grandis, Dimetrodon limbatus, Dimetrodon loomisi, Dimetrodon macrospondylus, Dimetrodon milleri, Dimetrodon natalis, Dimetrodon occidentalis, Dimetrodon teutonis

Type specimen: Its type locality is McLeod farm well, which is in an Artinskian terrestrial shale/sandstone in the Orby Head Formation of Canada

Distribution: found only at McLeod farm well

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