Biology:Riebeeckosaurus

Short description: Extinct genus of therapsids

Riebeeckosaurus Temporal range: Capitanian PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Synapsida
Clade:	Therapsida
Suborder:	†Dinocephalia
Family:	†Tapinocephalidae
Tribe:	†Riebeeckosaurini
Genus:	†Riebeeckosaurus Boonstra, 1952
Species:	†R. longirostris
Binomial name
†Riebeeckosaurus longirostris Boonstra, 1952

Riebeeckosaurus is an extinct genus of tapinocephalian therapsids from the Guadalupian epoch of Middle Tapinocephalus Zone, lower Beaufort Beds of the Karoo, in South Africa . Only two skulls are known from the type genus.

It was a herbivorous, medium-sized (2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in) in length, 500 kilograms (1,100 lb) in mass) dinocephalian, with a very long, slender snout and a narrow intertemporal region with a narrow sagittal crest.

See also

• List of therapsids

References

• The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive

External links

• Tapinocephalidae at Kheper

Wikidata ☰ Q3935255 entry