| Moschorhinus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Synapsida |
| Order: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | †Therocephalia |
| Family: | †Euchambersiidae |
| Subfamily: | †Moschorhininae |
| Genus: | †Moschorhinus Broom, 1920 |
| Species: | M. kitchingi |
| Binomial name | |
| Moschorhinus kitchingi Broom, 1920 |
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Moschorhinus is an extinct genus of therocephalian. It was a carnivorous quadruped and lived in the Permian period. Described by South African paleontologist Robert Broom in 1920, its name is derived from the Ancient Greek words moschos "calf" and rhino- "nose".
Its short strong skull bore long straight canines and was up to lion-sized. It resembled the gorgonopsids, whose predatory role it appears to have replaced.[1]
Remains of Moschorhinus kitchingi have been found in the earliest Triassic beds in the Karoo basin, hence surviving the Permian-Triassic extinction event, but disappear soon afterwards.[2]
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