Muchia

Muchia
Temporal range: Late Permian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Synapsida
Order: Therapsida
Suborder: Therocephalia
Superfamily: Baurioidea
Subfamily: Tetracynodontinae
Genus: Muchia
Ivakhnenko, 2011
Type species
M. microdenta
Ivakhnenko, 2011

Muchia is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsid from the Late Permian of Russia. Fossils have been found in the Kotelnichsky District of Kirov Oblast. The type species M. microdenta was named in 2011. Muchia is known only from a fragment of the lower jaw, making its classification among therocephalians uncertain. It is thought to be within the subfamily Tetracynodontinae, part of the larger group Baurioidea. Other members of the group such as Tetracynodon and Malasaurus are known from more complete material, and have small elongated skulls. Muchia probably had a similar appearance to these therocephalians.[1]

References

  1. ^ Ivakhnenko, M.F. (2011). "Permian and Triassic therocephals (Eutherapsida) of Eastern Europe". Paleontological Journal 45 (9): 981-1144. doi:10.1134/S0031030111090012.