Scylacosuchus
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| Scylacosuchus Temporal range: Late Permian (Lopingian)
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | †Therocephalia |
| Clade: | †Eutherocephalia |
| Genus: | †Scylacosuchus Tatarinov, 1968 |
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| †Scylacosuchus orenburgensis Tatarinov, 1968
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Scylacosuchus is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsids. It was a predatory eutherocephalian that lived in Lopingian epoch. Its fossils were found in Orenburg Oblast of Russia. The type species is Scylacosuchus orenburgensis.
References
[edit]- Valentin P. Tverdokhlebov, Galina I. Tverdokhlebova, Alla V. Minikh, Mikhail V. Surkov, and Michael J. Benton, (2005) Upper Permian vertebrates and their sedimentological context in the South Urals, Russia, Earth-Science Reviews 69 27-77 55
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