Aloposaurus

Aloposaurus; Temporal range: Late Permian
	Life restoration of Aloposaurus gracilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Synapsida
Clade:	Therapsida
Clade:	†Gorgonopsia
Genus:	†Aloposaurus; Broom, 1910
Species
	†A. gracilis Broom, 1910 (type); †A. tenuis (Brink and Kitching, 1953 [originally Aloposauroides tenuis]);
Synonyms
	Aloposauroides Brink and Kitching, 1953;

Aloposaurus is an extinct genus of gorgonopsian therapsids from the Late Permian of South Africa. It was first named by Robert Broom in 1910,^[1] and contains the type species A. gracilis (holotype AMNH 5317), and possibly a second species A. tenuis.^[2] This small gorgonopsid had a slender narrow skull only 12 centimetres (4.7 in) long, with a total body length of 60–70 cm (2.0–2.3 ft).

Classification

Below is a cladogram from the phylogenetic analysis of Gebauer (2007):^[2]

Gorgonopsia

Aloposaurus

Njalila

	Sycosaurus

	Clelandina

References

^ Broom, R. 1910. "A comparison of the Permian reptiles of North America with those of South Africa". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 28: 197–234
^ ^a ^b Gebauer, E.V.I. (2007). Phylogeny and evolution of the Gorgonopsia with a special reference to the skull and skeleton of GPIT/RE/7113 ("Aelurognathus"? parringtoni) (PDF) (Thesis). Dissertation Universität Tübingen.

Sources

paleodb.org

[1] Broom, R. 1910. "A comparison of the Permian reptiles of North America with those of South Africa". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 28: 197–234

[GEVI07-2] Gebauer, E.V.I. (2007). Phylogeny and evolution of the Gorgonopsia with a special reference to the skull and skeleton of GPIT/RE/7113 ("Aelurognathus"? parringtoni) (PDF) (Thesis). Dissertation Universität Tübingen.

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