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Scylacops bigendens

Gorgonopidae

Taxonomy
Sycocephalus bigendens was named by Brink and Kitching (1953). Its type specimen is BP/1/266, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Sondagsriviershoek, which is in a Wuchiapingian terrestrial horizon in South Africa.

It was recombined as Scylacops bigendens by Sigogneau-Russell (1989).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1953Sycocephalus bigendens Brink and Kitching p. 27
1989Scylacops bigendens Sigogneau-Russell

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
RankNameAuthor
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
suborderGorgonopsia
familyGorgonopidae(Lydekker 1890)
subfamilyGorgonopsinaeSigogneau-Russell 1970
genusScylacopsBroom 1913
speciesbigendens()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Scylacops bigendens Brink and Kitching 1953
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available