Title
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
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