Scylacorhinus
Name:
Scylacorhinus.
Phonetic: Sil-a-co-ry-nus.
Named By: Robert Broom - 1915.
Classification: Chordata, Synapsida,
Therapsida, Therocephalia, Scylacosauria, Scylacosauridae.
Species: S. falkenbachi
(type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: South Africa.
Time period: Permian.
Fossil representation: Partial remains.
Scylacorhinus is a genus of scylacosaurid therapsid that lived in South Africa during the Permian.
Further reading
- Catalogue of types and figured specimens of fossil vertebrates in
the American Museum of Natural History. II.–Permian, Triassic and
Jurassic reptiles of South Africa. - Bulletin of the American
Museum of Natural History 25(2):105-164. - Robert Broom -
1915.
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