''Sycosaurus'' is an extinct
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
of
rubidgeine gorgonopsia
Gorgonopsia (from the Greek Gorgon, a mythological beast, and 'aspect') is an extinct clade of sabre-toothed therapsids from the Middle to Upper Permian roughly 265 to 252 million years ago. They are characterised by a long and narrow skull, a ...
ns from the
Usili Formation
The Usili Formation is a Late Permian geologic formation in Tanzania. It preserves fossils of many terrestrial vertebrates from the Permian, including temnospondyls, pareiasaurs, therapsids and the archosauromorph ''Aenigmastropheus''.
History ...
(
Songea Group) of Tanzania. It was medium-sized, about 1.2 m in length. It was first named by
Haughton in 1924, and contains two species, ''S. laticeps'' and ''S. nowaki''.
[Kammerer CF. (2016) Systematics of the Rubidgeinae (Therapsida: Gorgonopsia) PeerJ 4:e1608 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1608]
References
Gorgonopsia
Prehistoric therapsid genera
Permian synapsids of Africa
Fossils of Tanzania
Fossil taxa described in 1924
Taxa named by Friedrich von Huene
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