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Extinct genus of therapsids

Arctops
Temporal range: Late Permian
Life restoration
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: †Gorgonopsia
Family: †Gorgonopsidae
Genus: †Arctops
Watson, 1914
Species
  • †A. willistoni Watson, 1914 (type)

Arctops ("Bear face") is an extinct genus of gorgonopsian therapsids known from the Late Permian of South Africa. It measured up to 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) in length and its skull was 30 centimetres (12 in) long. The type species is Arctops willistoni. A second species, A. watsoni, may be synonymous with A. willistoni. A. kitchingi may be a third species of Arctops, but it was only tentatively assigned to the genus when it was first named. Both were formally synonymized with A. willistoni by Christian Kammerer in 2017.

Restoration

References

  1. "Arctops willistoni". Palaeocritti - a guide to prehistoric animals. Archived from the original on December 30, 2016.
  2. 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.
  3. Kammerer, C.F. (2017). "Anatomy and relationships of the South African gorgonopsian Arctops (Therapsida, Theriodontia)". Papers in Palaeontology. 3 (4): 583–611. doi:10.1002/spp2.1094.
Gorgonopsia
Synapsida
Gorgonopsia
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Gorgonopsia
Gorgonopsia
Russian clade
African clade
Rubidgeinae
Rubidgeini
Nomina dubia
Gorgonops whaitsii
Taxon identifiers
Arctops


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