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Timeline of Permian research

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Timeline of Permian research

This timeline of Permian research is a chronological listing of events in the history of geology and paleontology focused on the study of earth during the span of time lasting from 298.9–252.17 million years ago and the legacies of this period in the rock and fossil records.

Contents

19th century

1828

  • Brongn. described the new genera Calamites and Glossopteris.

    • 1853

  • Meyer described the new genus Arthropleura.

    • 1864 - 1866

  • Gervais described the new genus Mesosaurus.

    • 1870

  • Cope described the new genus Lystrosaurus.

    • 1877

  • Cope described the new genus Diplocaulus.

    • 1877

  • Cope described the new genus Dimetrodon.

    • 1882

  • Cope described the new genus Edaphosaurus.

    • 1887

  • Cope described the new genus Eryops.

    • 1899

  • Karpinsky described the new genus Helicoprion.

    • 20th century

    1904

  • Broili described the new genus Seymouria.

    • 1911

  • Broom described the new genus and species Moschops capensis.

    • 1922

  • Amalitsky described the new genus Inostrancevia.

    • 1937

  • Stovall described the new genus Cotylorhynchus.

    • 1948

  • L. I. Price described the new genus Prionosuchus.

    • References

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