Microurania

Microurania
Temporal range: Wordian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Genus: †Microurania
Ivakhnenko, 1995
Species:
†M. minima
Binomial name
†Microurania minima
Ivakhnenko, 1995

Microurania is an extinct genus of therapsids from the Middle Permian first named and described by Mikhaïl Ivakhnenko.[1] It is known from a single partial skull found in the region of Orenburg, Russia. According to Kammerer, 2011, it likely represents the remains of a juvenile dinocephalian.[2]

Skull

Microurania was small, with a skull of about 5 cm in length, though the postorbital portion of the skull is missing.[1] It has a leaf-like postcanine tooth similar to the one on Phthinosuchus. It was probably omnivorous.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Ivakhnenko, Mikhaïl Feodosievich (1995). "New primitive therapsids from the Permian of Eastern Europe". Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal. 29: 110–119.
  2. ^ Kammerer, Christian F. (June 2011). "Systematics of the Anteosauria (Therapsida: Dinocephalia)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 9 (2): 261–304. doi:10.1080/14772019.2010.492645. ISSN 1477-2019. S2CID 84799772.

The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive


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