Lycaenodon
Name:
Lycaenodon
(wolf tooth).
Phonetic: Ly-say-no-don.
Named By: Robert Broom - 1925.
Classification: Chordata, Synapsida,
Therapsida, Biarmosuchia.
Species: L. longiceps
(type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: South Africa, Karoo basin -
Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone.
Time period: Late Permian.
Fossil representation: Skulls.
Lycaenodon
has occasionally been considered to be a gorgonopsid,
but modern
analysis firmly places Lycaenodon as a
biarmosuchian therapsid.
Like
others of its kind, Lycaenodon would have been a
predator of other
animals.
Lycaenodon
should not be confused with the similarly named gorgonopsid Lycaenops
that was also named By Robert Broom in 1925.
Further reading
- The Naris and Palate of Lycaenodon longiceps
(Therapsida:
Biarmosuchia), with Comments on Their Early Evolution in the
Therapsida. - Journal of Paleontology vol 77 no. 5 pp.
977-984 - Christian A. Sidor - 2003.
-
A New Burnetiamorph (Therapsida: Biarmosuchia) from the Middle Permian
of South Africa. - Journal of Paleontology. 80 (4): 740. - B. S.
Rubidge, C. A. Sidor & S. P. Modesto - 2006.
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