Lycaenops

Lycaenops
Temporal range: Guadalupian (Capitanian),
L. ornatus skeleton, American Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: †Gorgonopsia
Family: †Gorgonopsidae
Genus: †Lycaenops
Broom, 1925
Type species
Lycaenops ornatus
Broom, 1925
Species
  • †L. ornatus Broom, 1925
  • †L. angusticeps Broom, 1913
  • †L. microdon Boonstra, 1934
  • †L. sollasi Broili and Schröder, 1935
Synonyms
  • Lycaenoides
    Broom, 1925
  • Aelurognathus microdon
    Boonstra, 1934
  • Aelurognathus sollasi
    Broili and Schröder, 1935
  • Scymnognathus angusticeps
    Broom, 1913

Lycaenops ("wolf-face") is a genus of carnivorous therapsids. It lived during the Middle Permian to the early Late Permian, about 260 mya, in what is now South Africa.

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