Sycosaurus

Sycosaurus is an extinct genus of rubidgeine gorgonopsians from the Usili Formation (Songea Group) of Tanzania. It was medium-sized, about 1.2 m in length.[2] It was first named by Haughton in 1924, and contains two species, S. laticeps and S. nowaki.[3]

Sycosaurus
Temporal range: Late Permian[1] 259–252.3 Ma
Holotype skull of S. laticeps
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Therapsida
Family: †Gorgonopsidae
Subfamily: †Rubidgeinae
Genus: †Sycosaurus
Haughton, 1924
Type species
Sycosaurus laticeps
Species
  • †S. laticeps Haughton, 1924
  • †S. nowaki Broili & Schröder, 1936
Synonyms

Genus-level

  • Tetraodon Broili & Schröder, 1936
  • Tetradontonius Kuhn, 1961
  • Cephalicustriodus Parrington, 1974

S. nowaki

  • Tetraodon nowaki Broili & Schröder, 1936
  • Lycaenops kingoriensis Huene, 1950
  • Tetraodontonius nowaki Kuhn, 1961
  • Leontocephalus intactus Kemp, 1969
Restoration of S. laticeps with prey
Holotype of S. nowaki

References
  1. "Sycosaurus". Fossilworks.
  2. http://www.palaeocritti.com/by-group/gorgonopsia/sycosaurus
  3. Kammerer CF. (2016) Systematics of the Rubidgeinae (Therapsida: Gorgonopsia) PeerJ 4:e1608 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1608


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