Simorhinella
| Simorhinella Temporal range: Late Permian | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Order: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | Eutheriodontia |
| Suborder: | †Therocephalia |
| Genus: | †Simorhinella Broom, 1915 |
| Type species | |
| †Simorhinella baini Broom, 1915 | |
Simorhinella (meaning "little pug-nose" in Greek) is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsid from the Late Permian of South Africa. It is known from a single species, Simorhinella baini, named by South African paleontologist Robert Broom in 1915. Broom named it on the basis of a single fossil collected by the British Museum of Natural History in 1878 that included the skull and jaws forward from the eye sockets.[1] The skull is unusual in that it has an extremely short and deep snout, unlike the longer and lower snouts of most other therocephalians. Because of the skull's distinctiveness, the classification of Simorhinella within Therocephalia is uncertain.[2]
References
- ↑ Broom, R. (1915). "On some new Carnivorous Therapsids in the Collection of the British Museum". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 85 (2): 163–173. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1915.tb07409.x.
- ↑ Abdala, F.; Rubidge, B. S.; Van Den Heever, J. (2008). "The Oldest Therocephalians (Therapsida, Eutheriodontia) and the Early Diversification of Therapsida". Palaeontology 51 (4): 1011. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00784.x.
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