Shiguaignathus
Appearance
Shiguaignathus Temporal range:
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Holotype skull shown from above and below | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Clade: | †Therocephalia |
Family: | †Akidnognathidae |
Genus: | †Shiguaignathus Liu & Abdala, 2017 |
Species: | †S. wangi
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Binomial name | |
†Shiguaignathus wangi Liu & Abdala, 2017
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Shiguaignathus is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsid that lived in what is now China during the Late Permian.[1] It was found in the Naobaogou Formation and is known from a partial skull. It was found to be a basal member of Akidnognathidae.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Liu, Jun; Abdala, Fernando (2017). "The tetrapod fauna of the upper Permian Naobaogou Formation of China: 1. Shiguaignathus wangi gen. et sp. nov., the first akidnognathid therocephalian from China". PeerJ. 5: e4150. doi:10.7717/peerj.4150. PMC 5723136. PMID 29230374.