Syops
Syops is an extinct genus of dicynodont therapsid.[1] The type species S. vanhoepeni was first named in 1938 as Dicynodon vanhoepeni. Fossils of the genus have been found in the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone in the Usili Formation of the Ruhuhu Basin, Tanzania and Madumabisa Mudstone, Zambia.[2]
Syops | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Clade: | †Dicynodontia |
Family: | †Geikiidae |
Genus: | †Syops Kammerer et al. 2011 |
Type species | |
†S. vanhoepeni (Boonstra 1938) |
References
- Kammerer, C.F.; Angielczyk, K.D.; Fröbisch, J. (2011). "A comprehensive taxonomic revision of Dicynodon (Therapsida, Anomodontia) and its implications for dicynodont phylogeny, biogeography, and biostratigraphy". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (Suppl. 1): 1–158. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.627074.
- Syops at Fossilworks.org
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