A late Permian captorhinid from Rhodesia

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 2688

By

Gaffney, Eugene S.

McKenna, Malcolm C.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, N.Y, American Museum of Natural History, c1979

Notes

Title from caption.

"October 30, 1979."

"Two partial skulls from the late Permian Madumabisa Mudstone in the Middle Zambezi Basin of Rhodesia belong to the captorhinid genus Protocaptorhinus. Heretofore, Protocaptorhinus has been known only from the early Permian of Texas, whereas Africa has yielded only one other captorhinid, Moradisaurus, from Niger. The Captorhinidae is a monophyletic group (possibly including turtles) with these derived characters: downturned premaxilla, ectopterygoid and tabular absent, medial process of jugal. Protocaptorhinus differs from Romeria in having a shallow median parietal embayment and differs from remaining captorhinids in lacking a retroarticular process"--P. [1].

Subjects

Captorhinidae , Paleontology , Permian , Reptiles, Fossil , Zimbabwe

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.2688, 1979

Language

English

Identifiers

LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/79129073
OCLC: 7554307