Biology:Karrowalteria

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Short description: Extinct genus of therapsids from the Middle Permian of South Africa


Karrowalteria
Temporal range: Middle Permian
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Karrowalteria

Karrowalteria is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsids from the Middle Permian of South Africa . It belongs to the family Scylacosauridae, and resembles the genera Pristerognathus and Scymnosaurus. It is known from a single species, Karrowalteria skinneri, named by South African paleontologists A. S. Brink and J. W. Kitching in 1958 to replace the preoccupied Walteria which was named in honor of Alex J. Walter Skinner, who found the holotype skull near Laingsburg, Western Cape.[1]

References

  1. Brink, A. S.; Kitching, J. W. (1951). "CXIII.—Some Theriodonts in the collection of the Bernard Price Institute". Journal of Natural History. Series 12 4 (48): 1218. doi:10.1080/00222935108654253. 

Wikidata ☰ Q7966565 entry