Rubidgea
| Rubidgea Temporal range: Permian | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Synapsida |
| Order: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | Gorgonopsia |
| Family: | Gorgonopsidae |
| Subfamily: | Rubidgeinae |
| Genus: | Rubidgea |
| Species: | Rubidgea atrox Broom, 1948 |
Rubidgea is an extinct genus of therapsid. It had very large canines, longer than the teeth of the dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex.[1] It lived in the Permian period. Rubidgea reached a length of 3.4 metres (11 ft) and had a 46 centimetres (1.51 ft) long skull.[2]
Classification
Restoration
Below is a cladogram from the phylogenetic analysis of Gebauer (2007):[3]
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See also
- ↑ Blaire van Valkenburgh and Ian Jenkins (2002). "Evolutionary patterns in the history of Permo-Triassic and Cenozoic synapsid predators" (PDF). Paleontological Society Papers 8: 267–289.
- ↑ http://www.palaeocritti.com/by-group/gorgonopsia/rubidgea
- ↑ 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.
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