Bullacephalus
| Bullacephalus Temporal range: Late Permian | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Order: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | †Biarmosuchia |
| Family: | †Burnetiidae |
| Genus: | †Bullacephalus Rubidge and Kitching, 2003 |
| Type species | |
| †B. jacksoni Rubidge and Kitching, 2003 | |
Bullacephalus is an extinct genus of biarmosuchian therapsid belonging to the family Burnetiidae. The type species B. jacksoni was named in 2003. It is known from a relatively complete skull and lower jaw, discovered in the Late Permian Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone of the Beaufort Group of South Africa.[1]
References
- ↑ Rubidge, B.S.; Kitching, J.W. (2003). "A new burnetiamorph (Therapsida: Biarmosuchia) from the Lower Beaufort Group of South Africa". Palaeontology 46 (1): 199–210. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00294.
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