Arctops

Arctops Temporal range: Late Permian
Life restoration of Arctops watsoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Synapsida
Order:	Therapsida
Family:	†Gorgonopsidae
Genus:	†Arctops Watson, 1914
Species
†A. willistoni Watson, 1914 (type) ?†A. watsoni Brink and Kitching, 1953 †A. kitchingi Brink and Kitching, 1953

Arctops ("Bear face") is an extinct genus of gorgonopsian therapsid known from the Late Permian of South Africa. It measured up to 2 m (6 ft) in length and its skull was 30 cm (1 ft) long.^[1] The type species is Arctops willistoni. A second species, A. watsoni, may be synonymous with A. willistoni. A. kitchingi may be a third species of Arctops, but it was only tentatively assigned to the genus when it was first named.^[2]

Restoration of Arctops watsoni

References

1. http://www.palaeocritti.com/by-group/gorgonopsia/arctops
2. 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.