Gorynychus

Gorynychus
Temporal range:
Holotype skull of G. masyutinae
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: Therocephalia
Genus: Gorynychus
Kammerer & Masyutin, 2018
Type species
Gorynychus masyutinae
Kammerer & Masyutin, 2018
Other species
  • G. sundyrensis Suchkova & Gobulev, 2019

Gorynychus is a genus of therocephalian from the mid-Permian from Kotelnich, Russia. The genus contains two species, G. masyutinae and G. sundyrensis. It was named after the three-headed dragon Zmey Gorynych (Змей Горыныч) from Russian mythology.