Pampaphoneus

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Pampaphoneus
Temporal range: Middle Permian
~260 Ma
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Suborder: Dinocephalia
Family: Anteosauridae
Genus: Pampaphoneus
Cisneros et al., 2012
Species:
P. biccai
Binomial name
Pampaphoneus biccai
Cisneros et al., 2012

Pampaphoneus is an extinct genus of dinocephalians from the Middle Permian Rio do Rasto Formation of Brazil. It is known from a well-preserved skull. The type species is Pampaphoneus biccai.[1][2] Below is a cladogram showing the phylogenetic placement of Pampaphoneus from Cisneros et al. (2012):

Pampaphoneus biccai was closely related to Australosyodon[3][4]

Taxonomy[]

Therapsida

Biarmosuchus tener

Dinocephalia

Estemmenosuchus uralensis

Ulemosaurus svijagensis

Tapinocaninus pamelae

Anteosauridae

Archaeosyodon praeventor

Anteosaurinae

Sinophoneus yumenensis

Titanophoneus adamanteus

Titanophoneus potens

Anteosaurus magnificus

Syodontinae

Pampaphoneus biccai

Notosyodon gusevi

Syodon biarmicum

Australosyodon nyaphuli

References[]

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ Cisneros, J.C.; Abdala, F.; Atayman-Güven, S.; Rubidge, B.S.; Şengör, A.M.C.; Schultz, C.L. (2012). "Carnivorous dinocephalian from the Middle Permian of Brazil and tetrapod dispersal in Pangaea". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 109 (5): 1584–1588. Bibcode:2012PNAS..109.1584C. doi:10.1073/pnas.1115975109. PMC 3277192. PMID 22307615.
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-04-20. Retrieved 2015-04-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ "TimesLIVE".


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