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Ictidochampsa

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Ictidochampsa
Temporal range: Wuchiapingian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: Therocephalia
Family: Whaitsiidae
Genus: Ictidochampsa
Broom, 1948
Type species
Ictidochampsa platyceps
Broom, 1948

Ictidochampsa is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsids from the Late Permian of South Africa. The type species Ictidochampsa platyceps was named by South African paleontologist Robert Broom in 1948 from the Dicynodon Assemblage Zone.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Nicolas, M.; Rubidge, B.S. (2010). "Changes in Permo-Triassic terrestrial tetrapod ecological representation in the Beaufort Group (Karoo Supergroup) of South Africa". Lethaia. 43 (1): 45–59. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.2009.00171.x.