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''Otsheria'' is an
''The amniote faunas of the Russian Permian: implications for Late Permian terrestrial vertebrate biogeography''
''In'' Benton, M. J.; Shishkin, M. A.; Unwin, D. M.; Kurochkin, E. N. The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Cambridge University Press, 2001. 672 p. ''Otsheria'' had a long skull.
extinct
Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of anomodont
Anomodontia is an extinct group of non-mammalian therapsids from the Permian and Triassic periods. By far the most speciose group are the dicynodonts, a clade of beaked, tusked herbivores.Chinsamy-Turan, A. (2011) ''Forerunners of Mammals: Ra ...
from the Permian
The Permian ( ) is a geologic period and stratigraphic system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic Period 251.9 Mya. It is the last period of the Paleo ...
of Russia
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.Modesto, S. P. & Rybcynski, N''The amniote faunas of the Russian Permian: implications for Late Permian terrestrial vertebrate biogeography''
''In'' Benton, M. J.; Shishkin, M. A.; Unwin, D. M.; Kurochkin, E. N. The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Cambridge University Press, 2001. 672 p. ''Otsheria'' had a long skull.
See also
* List of therapsidsReferences
Further reading
*''The Origin and Evolution of Mammals (Oxford Biology)'' by T. S. Kemp *''The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia'' by Michael J. Benton, Mikhail A. Shishkin, David M. Unwin, and Evgenii N. Kurochkin *''Origins of the Higher Groups of Tetrapods: Controversy and Consensus'' by Hans-Peter Schultze and Linda Trueb *''Reptiles and Herbivory'' by G.M. King Anomodont genera Guadalupian synapsids Guadalupian genus first appearances Guadalupian genus extinctions Prehistoric synapsids of Europe Permian Russia Fossils of Russia Fossil taxa described in 1960 {{anomodont-stub