Biology:Icticephalus
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Short description: Extinct genus of therapsids from Permian South Africa
| Icticephalus Temporal range: Middle - Late Permian
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | †Therocephalia |
| Superfamily: | †Baurioidea |
| Genus: | †Icticephalus Broom, 1915 |
| Type species | |
| †Icticephalus polycynodon Broom, 1915
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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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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
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