Cyonosaurus
Appearance
Cyonosaurus Temporal range: Late Permian
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Life restoration of Cyonosaurus longiceps | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Clade: | †Gorgonopsia |
Genus: | †Cyonosaurus Olsen, 1937 |
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Cyonosaurus is a genus of gorgonopsian therapsids from the Late Permian of South Africa. Cyonosaurus was 0.6 to 1.1 metres (2 ft 0 in to 3 ft 7 in) in length, with a skull 9 to 18 centimetres (3+1⁄2 to 7 in) in length. The type species Cyonosaurus longiceps was named in 1937.[1]
See also
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) (PDF) (Ph.D. thesis). Tübingen: Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen. pp. 1–316.
- Vertebrate Palaeontology by Michael J. Benton
- paleodb.org
- Sigogneau D. 1970. Révision systématique des Gorgonopsiens sud-africains. Cahiers de Paléontologie: 417