Burnetiidae
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Extinct family of therapsids
| Burnetiidae Temporal range: Middle - Late Permian
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| Life restoration of Proburnetia viatkensis , a burnetiid from the Late Permian of Russia | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | †Biarmosuchia |
| Clade: | †Burnetiamorpha |
| Family: | †Burnetiidae Broom, 1923 |
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Burnetiidae is an extinct family of biarmosuchian therapsids that lived in the Permian period whose fossils are found in South Africa, Zambia and Russia. It contains Bondoceras , Bullacephalus , Burnetia , Mobaceras , Niuksenitia , Paraburnetia and Proburnetia .[1] [2]
References
[edit ]- ^ Kammerer, C. F.; Sidor, C. A. (2021). "A new burnetiid from the middle Permian of Zambia and a reanalysis of burnetiamorph relationships". Papers in Palaeontology. 7 (3): 1261–1295. doi:10.1002/spp2.1341. ISSN 2056-2802. S2CID 232063704.
- ^ Smith, R. M. H.; Rubidge, B. S.; Sidor, C. A. (2006). "A new burnetiid (Therapsida: Biarmosuchia) from the Upper Permian of South Africa and its biogeographic implications". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 26 (2): 331–343. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[331:ANBTBF]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 86367955.
