Biology:Riebeeckosaurus
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Short description: Extinct genus of therapsids
Riebeeckosaurus | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Suborder: | †Dinocephalia |
Family: | †Tapinocephalidae |
Tribe: | †Riebeeckosaurini |
Genus: | †Riebeeckosaurus Boonstra, 1952 |
Species: | †R. longirostris
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Binomial name | |
†Riebeeckosaurus longirostris Boonstra, 1952
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Riebeeckosaurus is an extinct genus of tapinocephalian therapsids from the Guadalupian epoch of Middle Tapinocephalus Zone, lower Beaufort Beds of the Karoo, in South Africa . Only two skulls are known from the type genus.
It was a herbivorous, medium-sized (2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in) in length, 500 kilograms (1,100 lb) in mass) dinocephalian, with a very long, slender snout and a narrow intertemporal region with a narrow sagittal crest.
See also
- List of therapsids
References
External links
- Tapinocephalidae at Kheper
Wikidata ☰ Q3935255 entry
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