Sycosaurus
Appearance
Sycosaurus Temporal range: Late Permian[1]
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Holotype skull of S. laticeps | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Clade: | †Gorgonopsia |
Family: | †Gorgonopsidae |
Subfamily: | †Rubidgeinae |
Genus: | †Sycosaurus Haughton, 1924 |
Type species | |
Sycosaurus laticeps | |
Species | |
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Synonyms | |
Genus-level
S. nowaki
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Sycosaurus is an extinct genus of rubidgeine gorgonopsians from the Wuchiapingian (Upper Permian) Cistecephalus zone of South Africa. It was medium-sized, about 1.2 m in length.[2] It was first named by Haughton in 1924, and contains two species, S. laticeps and S. nowaki.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Sycosaurus". Fossilworks.
- ^ "Sycosaurus - Palaeocritti - a guide to prehistoric animals". www.palaeocritti.com. Archived from the original on March 14, 2016.
- ^ Kammerer CF. (2016) Systematics of the Rubidgeinae (Therapsida: Gorgonopsia) PeerJ 4:e1608 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1608