Biology:Burnetiidae

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Short description: Extinct family of therapsids

Burnetiidae
Temporal range: Middle - Late Permian
Proburnetia BW.jpg
Life restoration of Proburnetia viatkensis, a burnetiid from the Late Permian of Russia
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Suborder: Biarmosuchia
Clade: Burnetiamorpha
Family: Burnetiidae
Broom, 1923
Subgroups
Burnetia mirabilis head

Burnetiidae is an extinct family of biarmosuchian therapsids that lived in the Permian period whose fossils are found in South Africa and Russia . It contains Bondoceras, Bullacephalus, Burnetia, Mobaceras, Niuksenitia, Paraburnetia and Proburnetia.[1][2]

References

  1. Kammerer, C. F.; Sidor, C. A. (2021). "A new burnetiid from the middle Permian of Zambia and a reanalysis of burnetiamorph relationships" (in en). Papers in Palaeontology 7 (3): 1261–1295. doi:10.1002/spp2.1341. ISSN 2056-2802. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.1341. 
  2. Smith, R. M. H.; Rubidge, B. S.; Sidor, C. A. (2006). "A new burnetiid (Therapsida: Biarmosuchia) from the Upper Permian of South Africa and its biogeographic implications". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26 (2): 331–343. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[331:ANBTBF2.0.CO;2]. 

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