Eoarctops

Eoarctops
Temporal range: Capitanian
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

  1. D. M. S. Watson, A. S. Romer (1956). "A classification of therapsid reptiles". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 114 (2): 35–89.
  2. https://sites.google.com/site/palaeocritti/by-group/gorgonopsia/eoarctops

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