Sauroscaptor
Sauroscaptor is a genus of cistecephalid dicynodont from the upper Permian of India, containing one species, S. tharavati. It is remarkable for the extreme placement of its pineal foramen, which bulges out of the posterior margin of its skull.
| Sauroscaptor Temporal range: | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | †Anomodontia |
| Clade: | †Dicynodontia |
| Family: | †Cistecephalidae |
| Genus: | †Sauroscaptor Kammerer, Bandyopadhyay, and Ray, 2016 |
| Type species | |
| †S. tharavati Kammerer, Bandyopadhyay, and Ray, 2016 | |
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