''Lophorhinus'' is an extinct genus of biarmosuchian

therapsid Therapsida is a major group of eupelycosaurian synapsids that includes mammals, their ancestors and relatives. Many of the traits today seen as unique to mammals had their origin within early therapsids, including limbs that were oriented more ...

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Late Permian Late may refer to: * LATE, an acronym which could stand for: ** Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy, a proposed form of dementia ** Local-authority trading enterprise, a New Zealand business law ** Local average treatment effect, ...

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

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type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specime ...

''L. willodenensis'' was named in 2007. It is known from the anterior half of a skull. Burnetiamorpha

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Burnetiamorphs Prehistoric therapsid genera Lopingian synapsids of Africa Fossil taxa described in 2007 Taxa named by Christian Sidor Lopingian genus first appearances Lopingian genus extinctions {{paleo-therapsid-stub