Biology:Lophorhinus

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Short description: Extinct genus of therapsids

Lophorhinus
Temporal range: Late Permian
Lophorhinus willodenensis.jpg
Life restoration of Lophorhinus willodenensis
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Suborder: Biarmosuchia
Clade: Burnetiamorpha
Genus: Lophorhinus
Sidor and Smith, 2007
Type species
L. willodenensis
Sidor and Smith, 2007

Lophorhinus is an extinct genus of biarmosuchian therapsids from the Late Permian of South Africa . The type species L. willodenensis was named in 2007.[1] It is known from the anterior half of a skull.[1]

Lophorhinus (second) and relatives

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Sidor, C.A.; Smith, R.M.H. (2007). "A second burnetiamorph therapsid from the Permian Teekloof Formation of South Africa and its associated fauna". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27 (2): 420–430. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[420:ASBTFT2.0.CO;2]. 

Wikidata ☰ Q4043176 entry