Ictidosuchoides is an extinct genus of ictidosuchid therocephalians. Fossils have been found from the Karoo Basin in South Africa. The genus was previously thought to have been one of the few therocephalians to have survived the Permian-Triassic extinction event in this area,Smith, R. M. H. and Botha, J. (2005). The recovery of terrestrial vertebrate diversity in the South African Karoo Basin after the End-Permian extinction and it disappeared completely soon after. Comptes Rendus Palevol 4:555–568.Ward, P. D., Botha, J., Buick, R., De Kock, M. O., Erwin, D. H., Garrison, G., Kirschvink, J. L., and Smith, R. (2005). Abrupt and gradual extinction among Late Permian land vertebrates in the Karoo Basin, South Africa. Science 307:709–714. but the putative early Triassic specimens have since been attributed to Promoschorhynchus.

See also

List of therapsids Ictidosuchops

References

External links The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive