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.