Alrausuchus

Alrausuchus
Temporal range: Middle Permian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Order: Therapsida
Suborder: Biarmosuchia
Family: Alrausuchidae
Ivakhnenko, 2008
Genus: Alrausuchus
Ivakhnenko, 2008
Type species
Alrausuchus tagax
Ivakhnenko, 1990

Alrausuchus is an extinct genus of biarmosuchian therapsid from Russia. It was named by M.F. Ivakhnenko in 2008, as a reclassification of the species Biarmosuchus tagax that Ivachnenko had named in 1990. Ivachnenko erected the monotypic family Alrausuchidae for the genus.[1]

References

  1. Ivakhnenko, M.F. (2008). "Cranial morphology and evolution of Permian Dinomorpha (Eotherapsida) of Eastern Europe". Paleontological Journal 42 (9): 859–995. doi:10.1134/S0031030108090013.
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