Bohemiclavulus is a genus of synapsids that was discovered in the Slaný Formation of the Czech Republic. The type, and currently only, species is B. mirabilis.
Discovery and naming
The holotype, NM 633, consists only of a single spinous process fragment, and it was found in the Czech Republic.
Antonin Fritsch originally named Bohemiclavulus in 1895a with the binomial Naosaurus mirabilis.Fritsch, A. (1895a). Fauna der Gaskohle und der Kalksteine der Permformation Böhmens. Vol. 3. Prag: Řivnáč. It was renamed Ianthasaurus mirabilis in 1895b, and was renamed to Edaphosaurus 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 was created for the species.
Classification Bohemiclavulus has been classified as a member of the Edaphosauridae by Spindler et al. (2019).
The cladogram of Spindler et al. (2019) is shown simplified below:
See also List of pelycosaurs
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