Phocosaurus Temporal range: Capitanian (
Permian)
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A partial skull of Phocosaurus | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Suborder: | † Dinocephalia |
Family: | † Tapinocephalidae |
Genus: | †
Phocosaurus Seeley, 1888 |
Phocosaurus is an extinct genus of tapinocephalian therapsid. It was found in the Capitanian sediments in the Abrahamskraal Formation of South Africa. [1]