Lophorhinus
Appearance
Lophorhinus Temporal range: Late Permian
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Life restoration of Lophorhinus willodenensis | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Suborder: | †Biarmosuchia |
Clade: | †Burnetiamorpha |
Genus: | †Lophorhinus Sidor and Smith, 2007 |
Type species | |
†L. willodenensis Sidor and Smith, 2007
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Lophorhinus is an extinct genus of biarmosuchian therapsids from the Late Permian of South Africa. The type species L. willodenensis was named in 2007.[1] It is known from the anterior half of a skull.[1]
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References
- ^ a b Sidor, C.A.; Smith, R.M.H. (2007). "A second burnetiamorph therapsid from the Permian Teekloof Formation of South Africa and its associated fauna". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 27 (2): 420–430. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[420:ASBTFT]2.0.CO;2.