Scaloporhinus
Scaloporhinus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Clade: | †Therocephalia |
Family: | †Scaloposauridae |
Genus: | †Scaloporhinus |
Species: | †S. angulorugatus |
Binomial name | |
†Scaloporhinus angulorugatus Boonstra, 1953 |
Scaloporhinus is a genus of extinct therocephalian from the Permian of South Africa. It contains the single species S. angulorugatus.[1] The species possesses a parietal foramen, a feature that is lost in many species of this group.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Scaloporhinus angulorugatus". Paleobiology Database.
- ^ Boonstra, L.D. (1953). "LIII. - A new Scaloposaurian genus". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 6: 601–605.