Riebeeckosaurus

Riebeeckosaurus
Temporal range: Capitanian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Suborder: Dinocephalia
Family: Tapinocephalidae
Tribe: Riebeeckosaurini
Genus: Riebeeckosaurus
Boonstra, 1952
Species:
R. longirostris
Binomial name
Riebeeckosaurus longirostris
Boonstra, 1952
Synonyms
Genus synonymy
    • Avenantia Boonstra, 1952
Species synonymy
    • Avenantia kruisvleiensis Boonstra, 1952

Riebeeckosaurus is an extinct genus of tapinocephalian therapsids from the Guadalupian epoch of Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone, lower Beaufort Beds of the Karoo, in South Africa. Only two skulls are known from the type genus.

It was a herbivorous, medium-sized (2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in) in length, 500 kilograms (1,100 lb) in mass) dinocephalian, with a very long, slender snout and a narrow intertemporal region with a narrow sagittal crest.

In 2013, Saniye Güven and colleagues proposed that the genus Avenantia is synonymous with Riebeeckosaurus, representing an immature individual.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ Güven, S.; Rubidge, B. S.; Abdala, F. (2013). "Cranial morphology and taxonomy of South African Tapinocephalidae (Therapsida: Dinocephalia): the case of Avenantia and Riebeeckosaurus". Palaeontologia africana. 48: 24–33. hdl:10539/13310.


 

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