''Bohemiclavulus'' is a genus of

synapsid Synapsida is a diverse group of tetrapod vertebrates that includes all mammals and their extinct relatives. It is one of the two major clades of the group Amniota, the other being the more diverse group Sauropsida (which includes all extant rept ...

s that was discovered in the Slaný Formation of the

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. The type, and currently only, species is ''B. mirabilis''.

Discovery and naming

The holotype, NM 633, consists only of a single

spinous process Each vertebra (: vertebrae) is an irregular bone with a complex structure composed of bone and some hyaline cartilage, that make up the vertebral column or spine, of vertebrates. The proportions of the vertebrae differ according to their spina ...

fragment, and it was found in the

. Antonin Fritsch originally named ''Bohemiclavulus'' in 1895a with the binomial ''Naosaurus mirabilis''. It was renamed '' Ianthasaurus mirabilis'' in 1895b, and was renamed to ''

Edaphosaurus ''Edaphosaurus'' (, meaning "pavement lizard" for dense clusters of its teeth) is a genus of extinct edaphosaurid synapsids that lived in what is now North America and Europe around 303.4 to 272.5 million years ago, during the Late Carboniferous ...

mirabilis'' later that year.Fritsch, A. (1895b). Über neue Wirbelthiere aus der Permformation Böhmens nebst einer Übersicht der aus derselben bekannt gewordenen Arten. ''Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften'' 52: 1–17. In 2019, a new

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

was created for the species.

Classification

''Bohemiclavulus'' has been classified as a member of the

Edaphosauridae Edaphosauridae is a family of mostly large (up to or more) Late Carboniferous to Early Permian synapsids. Edaphosaur fossils are so far known only from North America and Europe. Characteristics They were the earliest known herbivorous amniotes ...

by Spindler ''et al.'' (2019). The cladogram of Spindler ''et al.'' (2019) is shown simplified below:

References

Edaphosauridae Prehistoric synapsid genera Fossil taxa described in 2019 {{paleo-synapsid-stub

Discovery and naming

Classification

See also

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