Platycraniellus
Name:
Platycraniellus.
Phonetic: Plat-e-cran-e-el-lus.
Named By: van Hoepen - 1917.
Classification: Chordata, Synapsida,
Therapsida, Cynodontia.
Species: P. elegans (type).
Diet: Carnivore?
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: South Africa - Normandien
Formation.
Time period: Early Triassic.
Fossil representation: Partial remains.
Platycraniellus is a genus of therapsid that lived in South Africa during the early Triassic.
Further reading
- Redescription of Platycraniellus elegans
(Therapsida,
Cynodontia) from the lower Triassic of South Africa, and the
cladistic relationships of eutheriodonts. - Palaeontology col
50, issue 3 pp 591-618. - Fernando Abdala - 2007.
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