Karrowalteria

Karrowalteria is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsids from the Middle Permian of South Africa. It belongs to the family Scylacosauridae, and resembles the genera Pristerognathus and Scymnosaurus. It is known from a single species, karrowalteria skinneri, named by South African paleontologists A. S. Brink and J. W. Kitching in 1958 to replace the preoccupied walteria which was named in honor of Alex J. Walter Skinner, who found the holotype skull near Laingsburg, Western Cape.[1]

Karrowalteria
Temporal range: Middle Permian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Synapsida
Order:
Therapsida
Suborder:
Therocephalia
Family:
Scylacosauridae
Genus:
Karrowalteria

References
  1. Brink, A. S.; Kitching, J. W. (1951). "CXIII.—Some Theriodonts in the collection of the Bernard Price Institute". Journal of Natural History. Series 12. 4 (48): 1218. doi:10.1080/00222935108654253.


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