Arctognathus breviceps Boonstra 1934 (therapsid)

Osteichthyes - Therapsida - Gorgonopidae

Alternative combination: Arctognathoides breviceps

Full reference: L. D. Boonstra. 1934. A contribution to the morphology of the Gorgonopsia. Annals of the South African Museum 31:137-174

Belongs to Arctognathus according to D. S. Sigogneau-Russell 1989

See also Kammerer et al. 2015

Sister taxa: Arctognathus cookei, Arctognathus curvimola, Arctognathus nasuta

Type specimen: SAM-PK-9345, a skull (Skull with lower jaw almost complete but somewhat deformed)

Ecology: carnivore

Distribution: found only at Oudeplaas, Richmond (Permian of South Africa)

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