| Sycosaurus | |
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| Holotype skull ofS. laticeps | |
Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | †Gorgonopsia |
| Family: | †Gorgonopsidae |
| Subfamily: | †Rubidgeinae |
| Genus: | †Sycosaurus Haughton, 1924 |
| Type species | |
| Sycosaurus laticeps | |
| Species | |
| Synonyms | |
Genus-level
S. nowaki
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Sycosaurus is an extinctgenus ofrubidgeinegorgonopsians from theWuchiapingian (UpperPermian) Cistecephalus zone ofSouth Africa. It was medium-sized, about 1.2 m in length.[2] It was first named byHaughton in 1924, and contains two species,S. laticeps andS. nowaki.[3]
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