Aelurognathus
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Aelurognathus
| Aelurognathus Temporal range: Permian |
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| Aelurognathus sp. skull at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | Therapsida |
| Family: | †Gorgonopsidae |
| Subfamily: | †Rubidgeinae |
| Genus: | †Aelurognathus Haughton, 1924 |
| Type species | |
| †Aelurognathus tigriceps (Broom and Haughton, 1913) (originally Scymnognathus tigriceps) |
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Aelurognathus is an extinct genus of gorgonopsian therapsid from the Permian of South Africa. The type species is Aelurognathus tigriceps, originally named Scymnognathus tigriceps by South African paleontologists Robert Broom and Sydney H. Haughton in 1913, and later assigned to the new genus Aelurognathus by Haughton in 1924. Gebauer (2007) erected five new species of Aelurognathus, all of which were previously assigned to other genera: Aelurognathus alticeps, Aelurognathus broodiei, Aelurognathus ferox, Aelurognathus kingwilli, and Aelurognathus maccabei.[1]
Aelurognathus reached a length of 1.5 m, with a skull length of 30 cm.[2]
References
- ^ Gebauer, E.V.I. (2007). Phylogeny and evolution of the Gorgonopsia with a special reference to the skull and skeleton of GPIT/RE/7113 ("Aelurognathus"? parringtoni) (Thesis). Dissertation Universität Tübingen. http://tobias-lib.uni-tuebingen.de/volltexte/2007/2935/pdf/Eva_Gebauer.pdf.
- ^ http://www.reptileevolution.com/aelurognathus.htm
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