Pristerognathus
Name:
Pristerognathus
(saw end jaw?).
Phonetic: Priss-teh-ro-nay-fus.
Named By: Harry Govier Seeley - 1895.
Classification: Chordata, Synaspida,
Therapsida, Therocephalia, Scylacosauridae.
Species: P. baini, P. platyrhinus,
P. polyodon.
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Skull about 25 centimetres long. Body
length about 1.5 meters long.
Known locations: South Africa - Pristerognathus
Assemblage Zone (Beaufort Group).
Time period: Capitanian of the Permian.
Fossil representation: Few individuals mostly by
skull material.
Pristerognathus was a medium sized predator that lived in South Africa during the Capitanian stage of the Permian. Another species of Pristerognathus, P. minor, was later re-described as a new genus, Pristerognathoides. However since this time there has been occasional speculation that Pristerognathoides should be made a synonym to Pristerognathus.
Further reading
- On Two New Therocephalian Reptiles (Glanosuchus macrops
and
Pristerognathus baini). Transactions of the
South African
Philosophical Society 15:85-88. - Robert Broom - 1904.
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