Pachydectes
Name:
Pachydectes
(Thick biter).
Phonetic: Pak-e-dek-teez.
Named By: B. S. Rubidge, C. A. Sidor
& S. P. Modesto - 2006.
Classification: Chordata, Synapsida,
Therapsida, Biarmosuchia, Burnetiidae.
Species: P. elsi (type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Skull about 35 centimetres long, Total
length roughly estimated at about 2 meters.
Known locations: South Africa - Koonap Formation.
Time period: Wordian/Capitanian of the Permian.
Fossil representation: Partial skull.
Pachydectes was a primitive biarmosuchian therapsid that lived in South Africa during the mid-Permian.
Further reading
- A new burnetiamorph (Therapsida: Biarmosuchia) from the
Middle Permian of South Africa. - Journal of Paleontology 80
(4): 740–749. - B. S. Rubidge, C. A. Sidor
& S. P. Modesto - 2006.
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