Name:
Venjukovia.
Phonetic: Ven-yu-ko-ve-ah.
Named By: V. Amalitskii - 1922.
Classification: Chordata, Amniota, Synapsida.
Species: V. prima (type).
Diet: Uncertain.
Size: Skull about 12 centimetres long.
Known locations: Russia.
Time period: Mid Permian.
Fossil representation: Partial skull.
Venjukovia was a genus of synapsid that lived in Russia during the mid-Permian.
Further reading
- Diagnoses of the new forms of vertebrates and plants from the Upper
Permian of North Dvina: Bulletin de l’Academie des Sciences, Saint
Petersburg, v. 6, n. 16, p. 329-340. - V. Amalitskii
- 1922.
- The early anomodont Venjukovia and the
evolution of the anomodont
skull". Journal of Zoology 232 (4): 651. - G. M.
King - 1994.