Microurania

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Microurania
Temporal range: Wordian
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Genus: Microurania
Ivakhnenko, 1995
Species:
M. minima
Binomial name
Microurania minima
Ivakhnenko, 1995

Microurania is an extinct genus of therapsids from the Middle Permian. It is known from a single partial skull found in the region of Orenburg, Russia. According to Kammerer, 2011, it likely represents the remains of a juvenile dinocephalian.[1]

Skull[]

Microurania was small, with a skull of about 5 cm in length. It has a leaf-like postcanine tooth similar to the one on Phthinosuchus. It was probably omnivorous.

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References[]

  1. ^ Kammerer, Christian F. (June 2011). "Systematics of the Anteosauria (Therapsida: Dinocephalia)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 9 (2): 261–304. doi:10.1080/14772019.2010.492645. ISSN 1477-2019.

The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive

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