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(Redirected from Scymnorhinus) Extinct genus of therapsids

Broomisaurus
Temporal range: Permian
skull cast, left lateral view
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: †Gorgonopsia
Family: †Gorgonopsidae
Genus: †Broomisaurus
Joleaud, 1920
Type species
†Broomisaurus planiceps
(Broom, 1913)
Synonyms
  • Scymnorhinus Broom, 1913(preoccupied)
Broomisaurus skull cast, dorsal view (top) and right lateral view (bottom). At the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.

Broomisaurus is an extinct genus of Gorgonopsia. It was first named by Joleaud in 1920, and contains the single species B. planiceps. Gebauer (2007) considered Broomisaurus to be a nomen dubium, indistinguishable as a separate taxon of gorgonopsian because it is based on only a fragmentary remains. A 2015 paper on Eriphostoma tentatively agreed with Gebauer's determination, but did not rule out the possibility that Broomisaurus might be synonymous with Eriphostoma.

References

  1. Gebauer, E.V.I. (2007). Phylogeny and evolution of the Gorgonopsia with a special reference to the skull and skeleton of GPIT/RE/7113 ('Aelurognathus?' parringtoni) (PDF) (Ph.D. thesis). Tübingen: Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen. pp. 1–316.
  2. Christian F. Kammerer, Roger M. H. Smith, Michael O. Day and Bruce S. Rubidge (2015) New information on the morphology and stratigraphic range of the mid-Permian gorgonopsian Eriphostoma microdon Broom, 1911. Papers in Palaeontology (advance online publication) DOI: 10.1002/spp2.1012 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.1012/abstract

Sources

Gorgonopsia
Synapsida
Gorgonopsia
    • see below↓
Gorgonopsia
Gorgonopsia
Russian clade
African clade
Rubidgeinae
Rubidgeini
Nomina dubia
Gorgonops whaitsii
Taxon identifiers
Broomisaurus


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