Polycynodon
| Polycynodon Temporal range: Late Permian | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Order: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | †Therocephalia |
| Superfamily: | †Baurioidea |
| Genus: | †Polycynodon Broom and Robinson, 1948 |
| Type species | |
| †Polycynodon elegans (Broom, 1940) (originally Octocynodon elegans) | |
Polycynodon is an extinct genus of therapsid therocephalian from the Late Permian of South Africa. It is known from the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone.[1] The type species was first described as Octocynodon elegans by South African paleontologist Robert Broom in 1940, but the name Octocynodon was preoccupied by a genus of labrid fish first described in 1904.[2] Along with John T. Robinson, Broom instated Polycynodon as a replacement name for O. elegans in 1948. Polycynodon is classified in Baurioidea, although its relationship to other baurioid therocephalians is uncertain.[3]
References
- ↑ Nicolas, M.; Rubidge, B.S. (2010). "Changes in Permo-Triassic terrestrial tetrapod ecological representation in the Beaufort Group (Karoo Supergroup) of South Africa". Lethaia 43 (1): 45–59. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.2009.00171.x.
- ↑ "Genus: Octocynodon Fowler, 1904". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. GBIF. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
- ↑ Watson, D.M.S.; Romer, A.S. (1956). "A classification of therapsid reptiles". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 114 (2): 37–89.
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