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 | |
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.