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| Elph Temporal range: Late Permian, | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | †Anomodontia |
| Clade: | †Dicynodontia |
| Family: | †Elphidae |
| Subfamily: | †Elphinae |
| Genus: | †Elph Kurkin, 1999 |
| Species: | †E. borealis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Elph borealis Kurkin, 1999 | |
Elph (an arbitrary combination of letters[1]) is an extinct genus of dicynodont therapsids from Russia. Four specimens have been found from the Sokolki Assemblage in European Russia, representing a fauna that dates back to the Late Permian.[2] The holotype, PIN 2353/37, was originally considered a juvenile specimen due to its small size (with a total skull length of 10.6 cm (4.2 in)), before being recognized as a mature individual.[1]
Elph was a small herbivore that lived alongside carnivorous akidnognathids and inostranceviids, as well as larger herbivores like Dicynodon and pareiasaurids.[3] The type species E. borealis was named in 1999. Elph has a short snout and tusks, and it is closely related to Interpresosaurus and Katumbia within the family Elphidae.[4]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Kurkin, A.A. (1999). "A New Dicynodont from the Malaya Severnaya Dvina River Excavations". Paleontological Journal. 33 (3): 297–301.
- ↑ Angielczyk, K.D.; Kurkin, A.A. (2003). "Phylogenetic analysis of Russian Permian dicynodonts (Therapsida: Anomodontia): implications for Permian biostratigraphy and Pangaean biogeography". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 139 (2): 157–212. doi:10.1046/j.1096-3642.2003.00081.x.
- ↑ Golubev, V.K. (2000). "The faunal assemblages of Permian terrestrial vertebrates from Eastern Europe" (PDF). Paleontological Journal. 34 (Suppl. 2): S211–S224.
- ↑ Angielczyk, K.D. (2007). "New specimens of the Tanzanian dicynodont "Cryptocynodon" parringtoni Von Huene, 1942 (Therapsida, Anomodontia), with an expanded analysis of Permian dicynodont phylogeny". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 27 (1): 116–131. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[116:NSOTTD]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 86308349.
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