Sauroctonus parringtoni Huene 1950

Osteichthyes - Therapsida - Gorgonopidae

Holotype formerly numbered as IGP U 28

Alternative combinations: Aelurognathus parringtoni, Scymnognathus parringtoni

Full reference: F. v. Huene. 1950. Die Theriodontier des ostafrikanischen Ruhuhu-Gebietes in der Tuebinger Sammlung. Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie and Palaeontologie, Abhandlungen 92:47-136

Belongs to Sauroctonus according to E. V. I. Gebauer 2014

See also Kammerer 2016 and Sigogneau-Russell 1989

Sister taxon: Sauroctonus progressus

Type specimen: GPIT/RE/7113, a skeleton. Its type locality is Usili mountain, which is in a Wuchiapingian terrestrial horizon in the Usili Formation of Tanzania.

Distribution: found only at Usili mountain

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