Scylacops bigendens Brink and Kitching 1953 (therapsid)

Osteichthyes - Therapsida - Gorgonopidae

Alternative combination: Sycocephalus bigendens

Full reference: A. S. Brink and J. W. Kitching. 1953. Studies on new specimens of the Gorgonopsia. Palaeontologia Africana 1:1-28

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

See also Brink and Kitching 1953

Sister taxon: Scylacops capensis

Type specimen: BP/1/266, a skull

Ecology: carnivore

Distribution: found only at Sondagsriviershoek (Permian of South Africa)

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