Arctognathus
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| Arctognathus Temporal range: Permian
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Order: | Therapsida |
| Family: | †Gorgonopsidae |
| Genus: | †Arctognathus Broom, 1911 |
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Arctognathus is an extinct genus of gorgonopsid that throve during the Late Permian in the Karoo basin of what is now South Africa.[1]
Discovery
File:Arctognathus curvimola old.jpg
1886 illustration of a A. curvimola skull
A carnivore, like all gorgonopsid, Arctognathus was given its name ("Bear jaw") in reference to its short and rounded snout. There is only one recognized species, A. curvimola.[2]
Description
It was a small gorgonopsid with a total length estimated at 1.1 m and an 18 cm skull.[3]
Classification
File:Arctognathus BW.jpg
Restoration of A. curvimola in environment
File:Arctognathus 2sp.jpg
Head of A. curvimola
Below is a cladogram from the phylogenetic analysis of Gebauer (2007):[4]
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See also
References
- ↑ Sidor 2003, p. 606
- ↑ Christian F. Kammerer (2014) Cranial osteology of Arctognathus curvimola, a short-snouted gorgonopsian from the Late Permian of South Africa. Papers in Palaeontology (advance online publication) DOI: 10.1002/spp2.1002 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.1002/abstract
- ↑ https://sites.google.com/site/palaeocritti/by-group/gorgonopsia/arctognathus
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Bibliography
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