Trochosuchus
Name:
Trochosuchus.
Phonetic: Tro-ko-su-kuss.
Named By: Robert Brrom - 1908.
Classification: Chordata, Synapsida,
Therapsida, Therocephalia, Trochosuchidae.
Species: T. acutus, T. major.
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: South Africa - Tapinocephalus
Assemblage Zone.
Time period: Permian.
Fossil representation: Partial remains.
Trochosuchus is a little known genus of therapsid that lived in South Africa during the Permian. Care should be taken not to confuse Trochosuchus with Trochosaurus, the type genus of the therapsid group which Trochosuchus belongs too.
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. - R. Broom - 1915.
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