Gansurhinus

Gansurhinus
Temporal range: Middle Permian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Family: Captorhinidae
Subfamily: Moradisaurinae
Genus: Gansurhinus
Reisz et al., 2011
Species
  • G. qingtoushanensis Reisz et al., 2011 (type)

Gansurhinus is an extinct genus of moradisaurine captorinid known from the Middle Permian of China. It was first named by Robert R. Reisz, Jun Liu, Jin-Ling Li and Johannes Müller in 2011 and the type species is Gansurhinus qingtoushanensis.[1]

References

  1. Robert R. Reisz; Jun Liu; Jin-Ling Li; Johannes Müller (2011). "A new captorhinid reptile, Gansurhinus qingtoushanensis, gen. et sp. nov., from the Permian of China". Naturwissenschaften. 98 (5): 435–441. doi:10.1007/s00114-011-0793-0. PMID 21484260.


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