Titanogorgon
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| Titanogorgon Temporal range: Late Permian | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Synapsida |
| Order: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | Gorgonopsia |
| Family: | Gorgonopsidae |
| Subfamily: | Rubidgeinae |
| Genus: | Titanogorgon Maisch, M. W. |
Titanogorgon maximus is an extinct gorgonopsid therapsid which existed in Tanzania during the upper Permian period. Its fossils are found from the Penman Kawinga formation of the Ruhuhu Basin, where it lived sympatrically with the slightly smaller gorgonopsid Ruhuhucerberus.[1] T. maximus is comparible in size to Inostrancevia, though T. maximus' skull anatomy clearly mark it as closely related to Rubidgea.
References
- ↑ Maisch, M.W. (2002). "Observations on Karoo and Gondwana vertebrates: Part 3: notes on the gorgonopsians from the Upper Permian of Tanzania". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatschefte 4: 237–251.
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