Ictidochampsa

Ictidochampsa
Temporal range: Late Permian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Order: Therapsida
Suborder: Therocephalia
Infraorder: Scylacosauria
Parvorder: Eutherocephalia
Superfamily: Baurioidea
Genus: Ictidochampsa
Broom, 1948
Type species
Ictidochampsa platyceps
Broom, 1948

Ictidochampsa is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsid from the Late Permian of South Africa. The type species Ictidochampsa platyceps was named by South African paleontologist Robert Broom in 1948 from the Dicynodon Assemblage Zone.[1]

References

  1. Nicolas, M.; Rubidge, B.S. (2010). "Changes in Permo-Triassic terrestrial tetrapod ecological representation in the Beaufort Group (Karoo Supergroup) of South Africa". Lethaia 43 (1): 45–59. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.2009.00171.x.