Lobalopex mordax

Lobalopex is a recently discovered burnetiamorph therapsid from the Late Permian of South Africa. It has small bumps on the top of the head.

Name

Lobalopex mordax

Authority

Sidor, Hopson and Keyser, 2004

Meaning of generic name

Lobe fox

[Meaning of specific name

biting (in Latin)]

Size

Skull length: 15 cm, Length: ? 0.8 m

Remains

Holotype (CGP/1/61): skull and lower jaws with parts of the first four cervical vertebrae in articulation.

Age and Distribution

Horizon: Hoedemaker Member of the Teekloof Formation. Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone. Beaufort Group. Upper Permian (Wuchianpingian).

Type locality: Quaggas Fontein 250 farm, Victoria West District, South Africa.

Classification

Synapsida Therapsida Biarmosuchia Burnetiamorpha

Further Reading

Sidor, C. A., Hopson, J. A., and Keyser, A. W. 2004. A new burnetiamorph therapsid from the Teekloof Formation, Permian, of South Africa: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 24, n. 4, p. 938-950.