Driveria

{{Short description|Extinct genus of therapsids}}

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| name = Driveria

| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|279.5|268}}{{Cite web|url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=38994|title = Fossilworks: Driveria}}

| genus = Driveria

| parent_authority = Olson, 1962

| species = ponderosa

| authority = Olson, 1962

}}

Driveria is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsids the Lower Permian of San Angelo Formation, Texas. It is mostly known from several postcranial bones, including the scapula, pelvis, and a few vertebrae and ribs, although a fragment of the skull that might pertain to the upper temporal fenestra is also associated with this species.{{Cite journal |last=Olson |first=Everett C. |date=1962 |title=Late Permian Terrestrial Vertebrates, U. S. A. and U. S. S. R. |journal=Transactions of the American Philosophical Society |volume=52 |issue=2 |pages=1-224}}

See also

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References

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  • [http://www.helsinki.fi/~mhaaramo/metazoa/deuterostoma/chordata/synapsida/dinocephalia/tapinocephalia_1.html The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive]
  • [http://www.palaeocritti.com/driveria]

{{Therapsida|E.}}

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Category:Tapinocephalian genera

Category:Cisuralian synapsids of North America

Category:Fossil taxa described in 1962

Category:Taxa named by Everett C. Olson

Category:Cisuralian genus first appearances

Category:Cisuralian genus extinctions

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