Biology:Icticephalus

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Short description: Extinct genus of therapsids from Permian South Africa

Icticephalus
Temporal range: Middle - Late Permian
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: Therocephalia
Superfamily: Baurioidea
Genus: Icticephalus
Broom, 1915
Type species
Icticephalus polycynodon
Broom, 1915

Icticephalus is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsids from the Middle and Late Permian of South Africa . The type species Icticephalus polycynodon was named from the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone by South African paleontologist Robert Broom in 1915.[1] Specimens of Icticephalus have also been described from the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone. Broom originally placed Icticephalus in the Scaloposauridae, a group of very small therocephalians. Most scaloposaurids are now thought to be juvenile forms of other therocephalians, and Scaloposauridae is no longer recognized as a valid grouping. Icticephalus and other former scaloposaurids are now classified as basal members of Baurioidea.[2]

References

  1. Benton, M.J. (1983). "Dinosaur success in the Triassic: a noncompetitive ecological model". The Quarterly Review of Biology 58 (1): 29–55. doi:10.1086/413056. 
  2. Huttenlocker, A. (2009). "An investigation into the cladistic relationships and monophyly of therocephalian therapsids (Amniota: Synapsida)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157 (4): 865–891. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00538.x. 

Wikidata ☰ Q5986786 entry