Eoarctops
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| Eoarctops Temporal range: Capitanian | |
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| Life restoration of Eoarctops vanderbyli | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Order: | Therapsida |
| Family: | †Gorgonopsidae |
| Genus: | †Eoarctops Haughton, 1929 |
| Type species | |
| †Eoarctops vanderbyli Haughton, 1929 | |
Eoarctops is an extinct genus of gorgonopsian therapsid. It contains one species, E. vanderbyli.
Description
Head
The jaw of an Eoarctops shows four or five upper incisors, a canine, and three molars in the same margin.[1] Eoarctops was a small predator of 0.50 m (1.7 ft) known from a 13 cm skull.[2]
References
- ↑ D. M. S. Watson, A. S. Romer (1956). "A classification of therapsid reptiles". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 114 (2): 35–89.
- ↑ https://sites.google.com/site/palaeocritti/by-group/gorgonopsia/eoarctops
External links
- Information on Eoarctops in the Paleontology Database (paleodb.org)
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