Scylacosuchus

Scylacosuchus
Temporal range: Late Permian (Lopingian)
Restoration of Scylacosuchus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Order: Therapsida
Suborder: Therocephalia
Family: Scylacosauridae
Genus: Scylacosuchus
Tatarinov, 1968
Type species
Scylacosuchus orenburgensis
Tatarinov, 1968

Scylacosuchus is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsid. It was a predatory scylacosaurid that lived in Lopingian epoch. Its fossils were found in Orenburg Oblast of Russia. The type species is Scylacosuchus orenburgensis.

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