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

  1. 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.
  2. "Genus: Octocynodon Fowler, 1904". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. GBIF. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
  3. 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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