Galeops
| Galeops Temporal range: Permian | |
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| Galeops skull | |
| Scientific classification   | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Chordata | 
| Clade: | Synapsida | 
| Clade: | Therapsida | 
| Clade: | †Anomodontia | 
| Clade: | †Chainosauria | 
| Genus: | † Broom, 1912 | 
Galeops is an extinct genus of anomodont therapsids from the Middle-Late Permian of South Africa. It was described by Robert Broom in 1912.[1] Some cladistic analyses have recovered it as closely related to dicynodonts.[2]
See also
References
- ^ Broom R. On some new fossil reptiles from the Permian and Triassic beds of South Africa Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1912: 859–876 .
- ^ Fröbisch, Jörg; Reisz, Robert R. (July 2011). "The postcranial anatomy of Suminia getmanovi (Synapsida: Anomodontia), the earliest known arboreal tetrapod: POSTCRANIUM OF SUMINIA". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 162 (3): 661–698. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00685.x.





