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Ruhuhucerberus

Ruhuhucerberus is a genus of very large, extinct gorgonopsian therapsids which existed in Tanzania during the Late Permian. Its fossils are found in the Penman Kawinga Formation of the Ruhuhu Basin. It existed sympatrically with the even larger Rubidgea.

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Ruhuhucerberus
Temporal range: Late Permian
Holotype skull
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: †Gorgonopsia
Family: †Gorgonopsidae
Subfamily: †Rubidgeinae
Genus: †Ruhuhucerberus
Maisch 2002
Type species
†Ruhuhucerberus haughtoni
(Huene 1950)
Synonyms
  • Aelurognathus haughtoni Huene 1950
  • Leontocephalus haughtoni Sigogneau 1970
  • Ruhuhucerberus terror Maisch 2002
  • Sycosaurus terror Gebauer 2007
Artist's reconstruction of R. haughtoni source ↗

Ruhuhucerberus is a genus of very large, extinct gorgonopsian therapsids which existed in Tanzania during the Late Permian.1 Its fossils are found in the Penman Kawinga Formation of the Ruhuhu Basin. It existed sympatrically with the even larger Rubidgea.2

References

References

  1. Kammerer, Christian F. (2016). "Systematics of the Rubidgeinae (Therapsida: Gorgonopsia)". PeerJ. 4 e1608. doi:10.7717/peerj.1608. PMC 4730894. PMID 26823998.
  2. M. W. Maisch (2002). "Observations on Karoo and Gondwana vertebrates: Part 3: notes on the gorgonopsians from the Upper Permian of Tanzania". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Monatshefte. 2002 (4): 237–251. doi:10.1127/njgpm/2002/2002/237.