Lende chiweta
| Lende chiweta Temporal range: Permian | |
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| MAL 290, the holotype of Lende chiweta, a burnetiamorph biarmosuchian from Malawi | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Synapsida |
| Order: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | Biarmosuchia |
| Family: | Burnetiamorpha |
| Genus: | Lende Kruger et al. 2015[1] |
| Type species | |
| Lende chiweta Kruger et al. 2015[1] | |
Lende chiweta is an extinct form of a burnetiamorph, biarmosuchians from Malawi. It was first reported by Jacobs and colleagues[2] in 2005 but was discovered in the early 90's in the Permian Lower Bone Bed (B1) of the Chiweta Beds of Malawi. These beds are believed to correlate with the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone of the South African Karoo, the Usili Formation of Tanzania, and the Upper Madumabisa Mudstone Formation of Zambia.[2][3] The holotype of the genus Lende is MAL 290 which comprises an almost complete skull and lower jaw.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 Kruger, Ashley; Rubidge, Bruce S.; Abdala, Fernando; Chindebvu, Elizabeth Gomani; Jacobs, Louis L. (2015). "Lende chiweta, a new therapsid from Malawi, and its influence on burnetiamorph phylogeny and biogeography". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35 (6). doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.1008698. (subscription required (help)).
- 1 2 Jacobs, Louis L.; Winkler, Dale A.; Newman, Kent D.; Gomani, Elizabeth M.; Deino, Alan (2005). "Therapsids from the Permian Chiweta Beds and the age of the Karoo Supergroup in Malawi". Palaeontologia Electronica 8 (1): 1–23. Lay summary.
- ↑ Sidor, Christian A.; Vilhena, Daril A.; Angielczyk, Kenneth D.; Huttenlocker, Adam K.; Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Peecook, Brandon R.; Steyer, J. Sébastien; Smith, Roger M. H.; Tsuji, Linda A. (2013). "Provincialization of terrestrial faunas following the end-Permian mass extinction". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110 (20): 8129–8133. doi:10.1073/pnas.1302323110.
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