sycosaurus, extinct, genus, rubidgeine, gorgonopsians, from, wuchiapingian, upper, permian, cistecephalus, zone, south, africa, medium, sized, about, length, first, named, haughton, 1924, contains, species, laticeps, nowaki, temporal, range, late, permian, pre. Sycosaurus is an extinct genus of rubidgeine gorgonopsians from the Wuchiapingian Upper Permian Cistecephalus zone of South Africa It was medium sized about 1 2 m in length 2 It was first named by Haughton in 1924 and contains two species S laticeps and S nowaki 3 SycosaurusTemporal range Late Permian 1 259 252 3 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg NHolotype skull of S laticepsScientific classificationDomain EukaryotaKingdom AnimaliaPhylum ChordataClade SynapsidaClade TherapsidaClade GorgonopsiaFamily GorgonopsidaeSubfamily RubidgeinaeGenus SycosaurusHaughton 1924Type speciesSycosaurus laticepsHaughton 1924Species S laticeps Haughton 1924 S nowaki Broili amp Schroder 1936SynonymsGenus level Tetraodon Broili amp Schroder 1936 Tetradontonius Kuhn 1961 Cephalicustriodus Parrington 1974S nowaki Tetraodon nowaki Broili amp Schroder 1936 Lycaenops kingoriensis Huene 1950 Tetraodontonius nowaki Kuhn 1961 Leontocephalus intactus Kemp 1969Restoration of S laticeps with preyHolotype of S nowakiReferences edit Sycosaurus Fossilworks Sycosaurus Palaeocritti a guide to prehistoric animals www palaeocritti com Archived from the original on March 14 2016 Kammerer CF 2016 Systematics of the Rubidgeinae Therapsida Gorgonopsia PeerJ 4 e1608 https doi org 10 7717 peerj 1608 nbsp This prehistoric therapsid related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Sycosaurus amp oldid 1185799663, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
