Oedaleops is an extinct genus of caseasaur synapsids from the Early Permian of the Southwestern United States. Fossils have been found in the Cutler Formation in New Mexico, which dates back to the Wolfcampian stage of the Early Permian. All remains belong to the single known species Oedaleops campi. Oedaleops was closely related to Eothyris, and both are part of the family Eothyrididae. Like Eothyris, it was probably an insectivore.
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Oedaleops is an extinct genus of caseasaur synapsids from the Early Permian of the Southwestern United States. Fossils have been found in the Cutler Formation in New Mexico, which dates back to the Wolfcampian stage of the Early Permian. All remains belong to the single known species Oedaleops campi. Oedaleops was closely related to Eothyris, and both are part of the family Eothyrididae. Like Eothyris, it was probably an insectivore.
==Discovery== Oedaleops was first described by paleontologist Wann Langston Jr. in 1965 on the basis of a mostly complete skull (specimen UCMP 35758, the holotype of Oedaleops) and a few isolated skull and postcranial fragments. The UCMP 35758 skull has been the sole specimen of Oedaleops used in most analyses of its evolutionary relationships. The more fragmentary specimens have been assigned to Oedaleops with caution because they are hard to distinguish from the bones of other Cutler Formation synapsids such as Aerosaurus. Additional specimens of Oedaleops were described in 2013, including many isolated dentaries (lower jaw bones), pectoral and limb bones, and disarticulated vertebrae representing at least three new individuals.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).