Pachydectes
Appearance
Pachydectes Temporal range: Middle Permian
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Pachydectes (above) and other burnetiamorphs | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Suborder: | †Biarmosuchia |
Family: | †Burnetiidae |
Genus: | †Pachydectes Rubidge et al., 2006 |
Species: | †P. elsi
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Binomial name | |
†Pachydectes elsi Rubidge et al., 2006
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Pachydectes is an extinct genus of biarmosuchian therapsids from the Middle Permian of South Africa.[1]
References
- ^ Rubidge, B.S.; Sidor, C.A.; Modesto, S.P. (2006). "A new burnetiamorph (Therapsida: Biarmosuchia) from the Middle Permian of South Africa". Journal of Paleontology. 80 (4): 740–749. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2006)80[740:ANBTBF]2.0.CO;2.