Ulemosaurus

Ulemosaurus is an extinct genus of dinocephalian therapsids that lived 265 to 260 million years ago, at Isheevo in Russian Tatarstan. It was a tapinocephalid, a group of bulky herbivores which flourished in the Middle Permian. Ulemosaurus and other tapinocephalians disappeared at the end of the Middle Permian.

Ulemosaurus
Temporal range: Capitanian,
Skull of Ulemosaurus svijagensis
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Suborder: Dinocephalia
Family: Tapinocephalidae
Tribe: Tapinocephalini
Subtribe: Moschopina
Genus: Ulemosaurus
Rjabinin, 1938
Type species
Ulemosaurus svijagensis
Riabinin, 1938
Species
  • U. svijagensis Riabinin, 1938
  • U. gigas (Efremov 1954)
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