Alopecognathus Temporal range: Late Permian
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Skulls including that of the holotype (A-B) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Clade: | †Therocephalia |
Family: | †Scylacosauridae |
Genus: | †Alopecognathus Broom, 1915 |
Species: | †A. angusticeps
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Binomial name | |
†Alopecognathus angusticeps Broom, 1915
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Alopecognathus is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsids from the Late Permian of South Africa.[2][1]
References
- ^ a b Kammerer, Christian E. (2023). "Revision of the Scylacosauridae (Therapsida: Therocephalia)". Palaeontologia africana. 56: 51–87. ISSN 2410-4418.
- ^ Haughton, S.H. (1918). "Some new carnivorous Therapsida, with notes upon the braincase in certain species". Annals of the South African Museum. 12: 175–216.