In Depth
Eriphostoma is a little known genus of gorgonopsid, but one that is important to the study of them given that Eriphostoma may well represent the earliest known gorgonopsid. There has been speculation that another genus called Broomisaurus and known only from fragmentary fossils may be junior synonym to Eriphostoma.
Further Reading
Further reading- On some New South African Permian Reptiles. – Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 81(4):1073-1082. – R. Broom – 1911.- On some new therapsid genera – Annals of the South African Museum, v. 28, n. 1, p. 55-78. – S. Haughton – 1929. - A Redescription of Eriphostoma microdon Broom, 1911 (Therapsida, Gorgonopsia) from the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone of South Africa and a Review of Middle Permian Gorgonopsians, by Christian F. Kammerer. In, Early Evolutionary History of the Synapsida, Christian F. Kammerer, Kenneth D. Angielczyk & J�rg Fr�bisch (eds) - 2013. - New information on the morphology and stratigraphic range of the mid-Permian gorgonopsian Eriphostoma microdon Broom, 1911. - Papers in Palaeontology. - Christian F. Kammerer, Roger M. H. Smith, Michael O. Day & Bruce S. Rubidge - 2015.
