Isengops
| Isengops Temporal range: Late Permian,
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| Holotype specimen (NHCC LB363) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | †Biarmosuchia |
| Clade: | †Burnetiamorpha |
| Genus: | †Isengops Sidor, Tabor & Smith, 2021 |
| Species: | †I. luangwensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Isengops luangwensis Sidor, Tabor & Smith, 2021
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Isengops (lit. 'horn face') is an extinct genus of burnetiamorph therapsid from the Late Permian of Zambia. The genus contains a single species, Isengops luangwensis, known from a partial skull. It is characterized by a nasal ridge, tall, triangular bosses over the orbits, and paired supratemporal "horns".[1]
References
- ^ Sidor, Christian A.; Tabor, Neil J.; Smith, Roger M. H. (2021). "A New Late Permian Burnetiamorph From Zambia Confirms Exceptional Levels of Endemism in Burnetiamorpha (Therapsida: Biarmosuchia) and an Updated Paleoenvironmental Interpretation of the Upper Madumabisa Mudstone Formation". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 9: 378. Bibcode:2021FrEEv...985244S. doi:10.3389/fevo.2021.685244. ISSN 2296-701X.