Alrausuchus
Appearance
Alrausuchus Temporal range: Middle Permian
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Suborder: | †Biarmosuchia |
Family: | †Alrausuchidae Ivakhnenko, 2008 |
Genus: | †Alrausuchus Ivakhnenko, 2008 |
Type species | |
†Alrausuchus tagax Ivakhnenko, 1990
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Alrausuchus is an extinct genus of biarmosuchian therapsids from Russia. It was named by M.F. Ivakhnenko in 2008, as a reclassification of the species Biarmosuchus tagax that Ivachnenko had named in 1990. Ivachnenko erected the monotypic family Alrausuchidae for the genus.[1]
References
- ^ Ivakhnenko, M.F. (2008). "Cranial morphology and evolution of Permian Dinomorpha (Eotherapsida) of Eastern Europe". Paleontological Journal. 42 (9): 859–995. doi:10.1134/S0031030108090013.