Bullacephalus
| Bullacephalus Temporal range: Late Permian | |
|---|---|
 | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Order: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | †Biarmosuchia |
| Family: | †Burnetiidae |
| Genus: | †Bullacephalus Rubidge and Kitching, 2003 |
| Type species | |
| †B. jacksoni Rubidge and Kitching, 2003 | |
Bullacephalus is an extinct genus of biarmosuchian therapsid belonging to the family Burnetiidae. The type species B. jacksoni was named in 2003. It is known from a relatively complete skull and lower jaw, discovered in the Late Permian Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone of the Beaufort Group of South Africa.[1]
References
- ↑ Rubidge, B.S.; Kitching, J.W. (2003). "A new burnetiamorph (Therapsida: Biarmosuchia) from the Lower Beaufort Group of South Africa". Palaeontology. 46 (1): 199–210. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00294.
| |||||||||||
| Alrausuchidae |  | ||||||||||
| Biarmosuchidae |
| ||||||||||
| Burnetiamorpha | |||||||||||
| Eotitanosuchidae | |||||||||||
| Hipposauridae | |||||||||||
| Ictidorhinidae | |||||||||||
| Others |
| ||||||||||
| Related categories |
| ||||||||||
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 6/27/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.