In Depth
Youngina is a genus of diapsid reptile that lived in what is now South Africa during the late Permian. The skull is roughly triangular with a snout that is about half the total length of the skull. The teeth are conical and well developed, and may have been used for killing larger invertebrates and small vertebrates.
Further Reading
- A new Thecodont Reptile - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1914:1072-1077 - Robert Broom - 1914. - Notes on the skull of Youngina capensis Broom - Journal of Geology, 44 (4): 523-533 - E. C. Olsen - 1936. - The morphology and relationships of Youngina capensis Broom and Prolacerta broomi Parrington - Palaeontologia Africana, 18:89-131 - C. E. Gow - 1975. - The braincase of Youngina capensis (Reptilia: Diapsida; Permian), N. Jahrb. - Geol. Pal�ont. Monats. 1984: 193-203 - S. E. Evans - 1987. - Acanthotoposaurus bremneri and the origin of the Triassic archosauromorphreptile fauna of South Africa - South African journal of science, vol. 96, no. 8. - R. R. Reisz, S. P. Modesto & D. Scott - 2000. - The enigmatic diapsid Acerosodontosaurus piveteaui (Reptilia: Neodiapsida) from the Upper Permian of Madagascar and the paraphyly of “younginiform” reptiles - Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 46 (9): 651-661 - Bickelmann, M�ller & Reisz - 2009. - The braincase of Youngina capensis (Reptilia, Diapsida): New insights from high-resolution CT scanning of the holotype. - Paleonotologica Electronica 13(3) - N . M. Gardner, C. M. Holliday & F. R. O’Keefe - 2010.
