Archaeosyodon
Name:
Archaeosyodon
(Ancient Syodon).
Phonetic: Ar-kay-o-sy-o-don.
Named By: P. K. Tchudinov - 1960.
Classification: Chordata, Therapsida,
Dinocephalia, Anteosauridae.
Species: A. praeventor
(type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Skull 30 centimetres long. Body
estimated between 1.5 and 2 meters long.
Known locations: Russia, Perm.
Time period: Wordian of the Permian.
Fossil representation: Partial skull (PIN
1758/3).
So far Archaeosyodon is only known by an incomplete skull, but it is still enough to clearly identify this as a dinocephalian therapsid. As such, Archaeosyodon would have been a predator of other therapsids and possibly other kinds of vertebrates during the Permian.
Further reading
- Upper Permian therapsids of the Ezhovo locality, P. K.
Tchudinov - 1960.
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