Extinct genus of therapsids from Zambia during the Late Permian
Ichibengops
Temporal range: Late Permian
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Clade:
Synapsida
Clade:
Therapsida
Clade:
†Therocephalia
Clade:
†Eutherocephalia
Genus:
†Ichibengops Huttenlocker et al., 2015
Type species
†Ichibengops munyamadziensis
Huttenlocker et al., 2015
Ichibengops is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsids known from the type species Ichibengops munyamadziensis, which lived in what is now Zambia during the Late Permian. Ichibengops was named in 2015 on the basis of fossils found in the Wuchiapingian-age Madumabisa Mudstone Formation in the Luangwa Basin. Therocephalians have been known from the Luangwa Basin for decades, yet Ichibengops was the first endemic Zambian therocephalian to have been described in detail. Phylogenetic analysis indicates that it is a basal member of the clade Eutherocephalia, lying just outside a clade containing hofmeyriids, whaitsiids, and baurioids. Ichibengops is the sister taxon of the Russian therocephalian Chthonosaurus; together they form one of several known African-Russian sister taxon pairs of eutherocephalians, which indicate that eutherocephalians could freely disperse across most of Pangea during the Late Permian.[1] Like the fellow therocephalian Euchambersia, Ichibengops might have had venom glands, as evidenced by grooves above its teeth.[2][3]
^Huttenlocker, Adam K.; Sidor, Christian A.; Angielczyk, Kenneth D. (20 Jul 2015). "A new eutherocephalian (Therapsida, Therocephalia) from the upper Permian Madumabisa Mudstone Formation (Luangwa Basin) of Zambia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (5): e969400. Bibcode:2015JVPal..35E9400H. doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.969400. S2CID 83554630.
^Field Museum (August 13, 2015). "Prehistoric carnivore dubbed 'scarface' discovered in Zambia" (Press release). Science Daily.
Ichibengops is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsids known from the type species Ichibengops munyamadziensis, which lived in what is now Zambia...
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