Ictidosuchoides
Appearance
Ictidosuchoides | |
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Life restoration of Ictidosuchoides sp. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Clade: | †Therocephalia |
Family: | †Ictidosuchidae |
Genus: | †Ictidosuchoides Broom 1931 |
Species | |
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Ictidosuchoides is an extinct genus of ictidosuchid therocephalians. Fossils have been found from the Karoo Basin in South Africa. The genus is known to have been one of the few therocephalians to have survived the Permian-Triassic extinction event in this area, although its numbers were quite low after the extinction.[1][2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Smith, R. M. H. and Botha, J. (2005). The recovery of terrestrial vertebrate diversity in the South African Karoo Basin after the End-Permian extinction and it disappeared completely soon after. Comptes Rendus Palevol 4:555–568.
- ^ Ward, P. D., Botha, J., Buick, R., De Kock, M. O., Erwin, D. H., Garrison, G., Kirschvink, J. L., and Smith, R. (2005). Abrupt and gradual extinction among Late Permian land vertebrates in the Karoo Basin, South Africa. Science 307:709–714.
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[edit]Categories:
- Ictidosuchids
- Therocephalia genera
- Lopingian genus first appearances
- Changhsingian genera
- Induan genera
- Early Triassic genus extinctions
- Lopingian synapsids of Africa
- Early Triassic synapsids of Africa
- Permian South Africa
- Triassic South Africa
- Fossils of South Africa
- Fossil taxa described in 1931
- Taxa named by Robert Broom
- Therapsid stubs