Lophorhinus

Lophorhinus
Temporal range: Late Permian
Life restoration of Lophorhinus willodenensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Order: Therapsida
Suborder: Biarmosuchia
Clade: Burnetiamorpha
Genus: Lophorhinus
Sidor and Smith, 2007
Type species
L. willodenensis
Sidor and Smith, 2007

Lophorhinus is an extinct genus of biarmosuchian therapsid from the Late Permian of South Africa. The type species L. willodenensis was named in 2007.[1]

Lophorhinus (second) and relatives

References

  1. 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.
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