Australobarbarus

Name: Australobarbarus ‭(‬Southern foreigner‭)‬.
Phonetic: Oss-tra-loe-bar-bah-russ.
Named By: A.‭ ‬A.‭ ‬Kurkin‭ ‬-‭ ‬2000.
Classification: Chordata,‭ ‬Synapsida,‭ ‬Therapsida,‭ ‬Dicynodontia,‭ ‬Oudenodontidae.
Species: A.‭ ‬kotelnitshi‭ (‬type‭)‬,‭ ‬A.‭ ‬platycephalus.
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Skull‭ ‬15-20‭ ‬Centimetres long.‭ ‬Total length roughly about‭ ‬65‭ ‬centimetres long.
Known locations: Russia.
Time period: Late Permian.
Fossil representation: Almost complete skeletons.

       Australobarbarus is a genus of dicynodont therapsid that lived in Russia during the Late Permian.

Further reading
-‭ ‬New dicynodonts from the Upper Permian of the Vyatka Basin.‭ ‬-‭ ‬Paleontological Journal‭ ‬34‭(‬2‭)‬:S203-S210.‭ ‬-‭ ‬A.‭ ‬A.‭ ‬Kurkin‭ ‬-‭ ‬2000.

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