Venjukovia

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.



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