Suminia is an extinct genus of basal anomodont that lived during the Tatarian age of the late Permian, spanning approximately from 268-252 Ma.[2]Suminia is recognized the youngest non-dicynodont anomodont.[1] Its fossil localities are primarily derived from the Kotel’nich locality of the Kirov Oblast in Russia. However, there have been some isolated specimen found in a few different localities, all from eastern European regions of Russia.[3]
Suminia, along with Otsheria and Ulemica make up the monophyletic group of Russian basal anomodonts named Venyukovioidea.[4] These Venyukovioid anomodonts are understood to have been derived from an ancestor that dispersed from Gondwana into Euramerica.[5]Suminia getmanovi is the only defined species within the genus and it is known for specializations in teeth for effective, functional oral processing of plant material as well as being one of the first species with a proposed arboreal lifestyle.[6]
^ abIvachnenko MF. 1994. A new Late Permian dromasaurian (Anomodontia) from Eastern Europe. Paleontological Journal 28: 96- 103.
^Rybczynski N. 2000. Cranial anatomy and phylogenetic position of Suminia getmanovi, a basal anomodont (Amniota: Therapsida) from the Late Permian of Eastern Europe. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 130:329–73
^Fröbisch, J. and Reisz, R. R. 2011. The postcranial anatomy of Suminia getmanovi (Synapsida: Anomodontia), the earliest known arboreal tetrapod. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 162: 661–698.
^Modesto, S. & B. Rubidge (2000) A basal anomodont therapsid from the lower Beaufort Group, Upper Permian of South Africa, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 20:3, 515-521.
^Modesto, S. P., B. S. Rubidge, and J. Welman. 1999. The most basal anomodont therapsid and the primacy of Gondwana in the evolution of the anomodonts. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 266:331–337.
^Fröbisch, J. and Reisz, R. R. 2009. The Late Permian herbivore Suminia and the early evolution of arboreality in terrestrial vertebrate ecosystems. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 276: 3611–3618.
Suminia is an extinct genus of basal anomodont that lived during the Tatarian age of the late Permian, spanning approximately from 268-252 Ma. Suminia...
Fröbisch, Jörg; Reisz, Robert R. (2009). "The Late Permian herbivore Suminia and the early evolution of arboreality in terrestrial vertebrate ecosystems"...
clearly specialised with adaptations for grasping, likely onto tree trunks. Suminia, a anomodont synapsid from Russia dating to the Late Permian, about 260 million...
literature, which notably excludes Suminia and Parasuminia. Venyukovioidea includes the genera Venyukovia, Otsheria, Ulemica, Suminia and Parasuminia, all from...
postcranial anatomy of Suminia getmanovi (Synapsida: Anomodontia), the earliest known arboreal tetrapod: POSTCRANIUM OF SUMINIA". Zoological Journal of...
ivakhnenkoi. It was closely related to Suminia, another Russian anomodont, and was named for its resemblance ("similar to Suminia"). Little is known about Parasuminia...
clade of non-cynodont therapsids. Other members of Anomodontia include Suminia, which is thought to have been a climbing form. Gorgonopsia is an abundant...
known tetrapod with specializations that adapted it for climbing trees was Suminia, a synapsid of the late Permian, about 260 million years ago. Some invertebrate...
broad caudals of dicynodonts, but similar to those of the venyukovioid Suminia). Early chainosaurs had also not yet evolved the reduced post-canine dentition...
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