Microurania
Appearance
Microurania Temporal range: Wordian
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Genus: | †Microurania Ivakhnenko, 1995 |
Species: | †M. minima
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Binomial name | |
†Microurania minima Ivakhnenko, 1995
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Microurania is an extinct genus of therapsids from the Middle Permian. It is known from a single partial skull found in the region of Orenburg, Russia. According to Kammerer, 2011, it likely represents the remains of a juvenile dinocephalian.[1]
Skull
Microurania was small, with a skull of about 5 cm in length. It has a leaf-like postcanine tooth similar to the one on Phthinosuchus. It was probably omnivorous.
See also
References
- ^ Kammerer, Christian F. (June 2011). "Systematics of the Anteosauria (Therapsida: Dinocephalia)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 9 (2): 261–304. doi:10.1080/14772019.2010.492645. ISSN 1477-2019.
The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive
External links
- Microurania minima at Palaeocritti