Lobalopex
Name: Lobalopex
(lobe fox).
Phonetic: Lo-bal-o-pleks.
Named By: C. A. Sidor, J. A. Hopson
& A. W. Keyser - 2004.
Classification: Chordata, Synapsida,
Therapsida, Biarmosuchia, Burnetiamorpha.
Species: L. mordax (type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Skull about 15 centimetres long, total
body size estimated to be about 80 centimetres long.
Known locations: South Africa - Teekloof
Formation.
Time period: Capitanian of the Permian.
Fossil representation: Skull, mandible (lower
jaw) and first four cervical (neck) vertebrae.
Lobalopex is a genus of burnetiamorph biarmosuchian therapsid that lived in South Africa during the Permian. As a burnetiamorph, Lobalopex would have been more closely related to genera such as Lophorhinus and Pachydectes than to Biarmosuchus.
Further reading
- A New Burnetiamorph Therapsid from the Teekloof Formation,
Permian of South Africa. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
24(4):938-950. - C. A. Sidor, J. A. Hopson
& A. W. Keyser - 2004.
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