| Icticephalus Temporal range:Middle -Late Permian | |
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Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | †Therocephalia |
| Superfamily: | †Baurioidea |
| Genus: | †Icticephalus Broom,1915 |
| Type species | |
| †Icticephalus polycynodon Broom, 1915 | |
Icticephalus is an extinctgenus oftherocephaliantherapsids from theMiddle andLate Permian ofSouth Africa. Thetype speciesIcticephalus polycynodon was named from theTapinocephalus Assemblage Zone by South African paleontologistRobert Broom in 1915.[1] Specimens ofIcticephalus have also been described from theCistecephalus Assemblage Zone. Broom originally placedIcticephalus in the Scaloposauridae, a group of very small therocephalians. Most scaloposaurids are now thought to be juvenile forms of other therocephalians, and Scaloposauridae is no longer recognized as a valid grouping.Icticephalus and other former scaloposaurids are now classified asbasal members ofBaurioidea.[2]
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