Name: Bauria.
Phonetic: Bow-re-ah.
Named By: Robert Broom - 1909.
Classification: Chordata, Synapsida,
Therapsida, Therocephalia, Bauriidae, Bauriinae.
Species: B. cynops (type),
B. robusta.
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: South Africa - Burgersdorp
Formation of South Africa.
Time period: Anisian of the Triassic.
Fossil representation: Skull and partial remains of
several individuals.
Bauria is a genus of therocephalian therapsid that lived in South Africa during the Triassic.
Further reading
- A new large bauriamorph from the Cynognathus-zone of South Africa.
- Palaeontologia africana 9:123-127. - A. S. Brink -
1965.