Niaftasuchus
Name:
Niaftasuchus
(Niafta crocodile).
Phonetic: Ne-af-tah-soo-kus.
Named By: M. F. Ivakhnenko - 1990.
Classification: Chordata, Synapsida,
Therapsida, Biarmosuchian, Niaftasuchidae.
Species: N. zekkeli (type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Skull reconstructed to be about nine
centimetres long.
Known locations: Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast.
Time period: Wordian of the Permian.
Fossil representation: Partial skull.
Niaftasuchus is a genus of biarmosuchian therapsid that lived in Russia during the mid/late Permian. At the time of writing Niaftasuchus is only known from a partial skull, but as a biarmosuchian, Niaftasuchus would be expected to have been a predator. Given the small size of the skull, Niaftasuchus would have probably been a predator of smaller animals.
Further reading
- The late Paleozoic faunal assemblage of tetrapods from deposits of
the Mezen River Basin. - Paleontological Journal 24:76–84.
- M. F. Ivakhnenko - 1990.
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