Niaftasuchus
Niaftasuchus is an extinct genus of therapsids. Only one species is recorded, Niaftasuchus zekkeli, from Nyafta, basin of the Mezen' River, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. The family Niaftasuchidae was created by Ivankhenko in 1990, and initially attributed to the Tapinocephalia, essentially on the basis of the dentition; later it was regarded as Biarmosuchia, by share big orbits and fused vomers.
Niaftasuchus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Suborder: | †Biarmosuchia |
Genus: | †Niaftasuchus Ivakhnenko, 1990 |
Species: | †N. zekkeli |
Binomial name | |
†Niaftasuchus zekkeli Ivakhnenko, 1990 | |
See also
References
- Battail, B. & Surkov, M. V. Mammal-like reptiles from Russia. In Benton, M. J.; Shishkin, M. A.; Unwin, D. M.; Kurochkin, E. N. The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Cambridge University Press, 2001. 672 p.
- The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive
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