Ianthasaurus

Taxobox
name = Ianthasaurus
fossil_range = Latest Carboniferous

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image_width = 250px
image_caption = "Ianthasaurus hardestii"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Synapsida
ordo = Pelycosauria
familia = Edaphosauridae
genus = "Ianthasaurus"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* "Ianthasaurus hardesti", though they were distantly related.

Discovery

It was named by Robert R. Reisz and David Bergman in 1986.cite web|url=http://rparticle.web-p.cisti.nrc.ca/rparticle/AbstractTemplateServlet?calyLang=eng&journal=cjes&volume=23&year=&issue=1&msno=e86-008|title=Ianthasaurus hardestii n. sp., a primitive edaphosaur (Reptilia, Pelycosauria) from the Upper Pennsylvanian Rock Lake Shale near Garnett, Kansas|author=Robert R. Reisz and David S. Berman|publisher=Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 23(1): 77-91(1986)] [cite web|url=http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=38912&is_real_user=0|title=Paleobiology Database:Ianthasaurus|accessdate=December 11|accessyear=2007] It was discovered by them in the Upper Pennsylvanian Rock Lake Shale near Garnett, Kansas.

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