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| Aloposaurus Temporal range: Late Permian | |
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| Life restoration of Aloposaurus gracilis | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | †Gorgonopsia |
| Genus: | †Aloposaurus Broom, 1910 |
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Aloposaurus is an extinct genus of gorgonopsian therapsids from the Late Permian of South Africa. It was first named by Robert Broom in 1910,[1] and contains the type species A. gracilis (holotype AMNH 5317), and possibly a second species A. tenuis.[2] This small gorgonopsid had a slender narrow skull only 12 centimetres (4.7 in) long, with a total body length of 60–70 cm (2.0–2.3 ft).
Classification
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Below is a cladogram from the phylogenetic analysis of Gebauer (2007):[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ Broom, R. 1910. "A comparison of the Permian reptiles of North America with those of South Africa". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 28: 197–234
- 1 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) (Thesis). Dissertation Universität Tübingen.
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