A new middle Permian burnetiamorph (Therapsida: Biarmosuchia) from the South African Karoo filling a gap in the biarmosuchian record

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dc.contributor.authorMatlhaga, Fonda
dc.contributor.authorBenoit, Julien
dc.contributor.authorRubidge, Bruce S
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-03T07:12:07Z
dc.date.available2024-09-03T07:12:07Z
dc.date.issued2024-09
dc.departmentEvolutionary Studies Institute ESI
dc.description.abstractBiarmosuchia, the most basal therapsid clade, is represented by relatively few specimens known from Permian deposits in Russia and southern Africa. In both the Guadalupian (middle Permian) and Lopingian (late Permian), biarmosuchians represent less than 1% of the fossil record at the specimen level. Here, we describe a new burnetiamorph biarmosuchian, Impumlophantsi boonstrai, based on a partial skull and associated postcrania from the upper Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone. It is characterized by the presence of a low nasal crest with a unique morphology among burnetiamorphs. Inclusion of this taxon in an updated phylogenetic analysis of biarmosuchians indicates that this specimen is one of the most basal burnetiamorphs, representing the only record of this grade from the middle Permian.
dc.description.sponsorshipGENUS, Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences DSI-NRF National Research Foundation of South Africa
dc.description.submitterJNC
dc.facultyFaculty of Science
dc.identifier.issn2410-4418
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/40426
dc.journal.titlePalaeontologia africana
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherThe Evolutionary Studies Institute
dc.rightsCopyright 2024 the Authors. This is an open-access article published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License (CC BY4.0). To view a copy of the license, please visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
dc.schoolSchool of Geosciences
dc.subjectSynapsida
dc.subjectBurnetiamorpha
dc.subjectPermian
dc.subjectphylogeny
dc.subjectbiostratigraphy
dc.titleA new middle Permian burnetiamorph (Therapsida: Biarmosuchia) from the South African Karoo filling a gap in the biarmosuchian record
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