Gansurhinus

Gansurhinus is an extinct genus of moradisaurine captorhinid known from the Late Permian Naobaogou Formation of China. It was first named by Robert R. Reisz, Jun Liu, Jin-Ling Li and Johannes Müller in 2011 and the type species is Gansurhinus qingtoushanensis.[1]

Gansurhinus
Temporal range: Lopingian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Family: Captorhinidae
Subfamily: Moradisaurinae
Genus: Gansurhinus
Reisz et al., 2011
Species
  • G. qingtoushanensis Reisz et al., 2011 (type)

References

  1. Robert R. Reisz; Jun Liu; Jin-Ling Li; Johannes Müller (2011). "A new captorhinid reptile, Gansurhinus qingtoushanensis, gen. et sp. nov., from the Permian of China". Naturwissenschaften. 98 (5): 435–441. doi:10.1007/s00114-011-0793-0. PMID 21484260.


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