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CERDORHINUS
(cer-do-ry-nus)
Named By: Robert Broom in 1936
Time Period: Permian
Location: South Africa
Size: Unavailable
Diet: Carnivore
Fossil(s): Partial remains
Classification: | Chordata | Synapsida | Therapsida | Gorgonopsidae |
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Cerdorhinus is an extinct genus of gorgonopsian therapsid from the Permian of South Africa. The type species Cerdorhinus parvidens was named by South African paleontologist Robert Broom in 1936. A second species, Cerdorhinus rubidgei, was named in 1970. In 2007, it was reassigned to the genus Cyonosaurus.

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