''Koupia'' is a dubious 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 non-

mammal Mammals () are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia (), characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a neocortex (a region of the brain), fur or ...

ian

synapsid Synapsids + (, 'arch') > () "having a fused arch"; synonymous with ''theropsids'' (Greek, "beast-face") are one of the two major groups of animals that evolved from basal amniotes, the other being the sauropsids, the group that includes reptil ...

. The type species, ''K. koupensis'', was coined by

Lieuwe Dirk Boonstra Lieuwe Dirk Boonstra (1905 – 1975) was a South African palaeontologist whose work focused on the therapsida, mammal-like reptiles of the Middle ( Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone, ''Tapinocephalus'' Assemblage Zone) and Late Permian, whose fossil ...

in 1948, with a well-preserved skull from the ''Tapinocephalus'' Assemblage Zone of

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

, SAM-PK-11796, designated the holotype. This specimen has since been lost, and ''K. koupensis'' is currently considered a nomen dubium or a possible junior synonym of '' Brachyprosopus broomi''.

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Dicynodonts Permian synapsids of Africa Fossil taxa described in 1948 Taxa named by Lieuwe Dirk Boonstra Anomodont genera {{anomodont-stub