Scylacosuchus
| Scylacosuchus Temporal range: Late Permian (Lopingian) | |
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| Restoration of Scylacosuchus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Order: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | †Therocephalia |
| Infraorder: | †Scylacosauria |
| Family: | †Scylacosauridae |
| Genus: | †Scylacosuchus Tatarinov, 1968 |
| Type species | |
| †Scylacosuchus orenburgensis Tatarinov, 1968 | |
Scylacosuchus is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsid. It was a predatory scylacosaurid that lived in Lopingian epoch. Its fossils were found in Orenburg Oblast of Russia. The type species is Scylacosuchus orenburgensis.
References
- Valentin P. Tverdokhlebov, Galina I. Tverdokhlebova, Alla V. Minikh, Mikhail V. Surkov, and Michael J. Benton, (2005) Upper Permian vertebrates and their sedimentological context in the South Urals, Russia, Earth-Science Reviews 69 27-77 55
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