Microurania

Microurania is an extinct genus of therapsids from the Middle Permian. It is known from a single partial skull found in the region of Orenburg, Russia.

Microurania
Temporal range: Wordian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Therapsida
Suborder: Biarmosuchia
Genus: Microurania
Ivakhnenko, 1995
Species:
M. minima
Binomial name
Microurania minima
Ivakhnenko, 1995

Skull

Microurania was small, with a skull of about 5 cm in length. It has a leaf-like postcanine tooth similar to the one on Phthinosuchus. It was probably omnivorous.

See also

References

The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive


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