Arctops

Arctops
Temporal range: Late Permian
Life restoration
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Order:Therapsida
Family:†Gorgonopsidae
Genus:†Arctops
Watson, 1914
Species
  • †A. willistoni Watson, 1914 (type)

Arctops ("Bear face") is an extinct genus of gorgonopsian therapsids known from the Late Permian of South Africa. It measured up to 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) in length and its skull was 30 centimetres (12 in) long.[1] The type species is Arctops willistoni. A second species, A. watsoni, may be synonymous with A. willistoni. A. kitchingi may be a third species of Arctops, but it was only tentatively assigned to the genus when it was first named.[2] Both were formally synonymized with A. willistoni by Christian Kammerer in 2017.[3]

Restoration

References

  1. ↑ https://sites.google.com/site/palaeocritti/by-group/gorgonopsia/arctops
  2. ↑ Gebauer, E.V.I. (2007). Phylogeny and evolution of the Gorgonopsia with a special reference to the skull and skeleton of GPIT/RE/7113 ('Aelurognathus?' parringtoni) (PDF) (Ph.D. thesis). Tübingen: Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen. pp. 1–316.
  3. ↑ Kammerer, C.F. (2017). "Anatomy and relationships of the South African gorgonopsian Arctops (Therapsida, Theriodontia)". Papers in Palaeontology. doi:10.1002/spp2.1094.


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