Zinnosaurus
| Zinnosaurus Temporal range: Early Triassic | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Order: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | †Therocephalia |
| Family: | †Scylacosauridae |
| Genus: | †Zinnosaurus Boonstra, 1968 |
| Type species | |
| †Zinnosaurus paucidens Boonstra, 1968 | |
Zinnosaurus is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsid from the Early Triassic of Brazil. A single partial skeleton was named from the Sanga do Cabral Formation in Rio Grande do Sul by paleontologist Lieuwe Dirk Boonstra in 1968.[1][2]
References
- ↑ Abdala, F.; Dias-Da-Silva, S.; Cisneros, J.C. (2002). "First record of non-mammalian cynodonts (Therapsida) in the Sanga do Cabral Formation (Early Triassic) of southern Brazil" (PDF). Palaeontologia Africana 38: 93–98.
- ↑ Botha-Brink, J.; Modesto, S. P. (2011). "A new skeleton of the therocephalian synapsid Olivierosuchus parringtoni from the Lower Triassic South African Karoo Basin". Palaeontology 54 (3): 591–606. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01048.x.
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