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ERIPHOSTOMA
(e-re-fo-sto-mah)
Eriphostoma
Named By: Robert Broom in 1911
Time Period: Middle Permian, Capitanian
Location: South Africa - Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone
Size: Uncertain
Diet: Carnivore
Fossil(s): Partial skull remains
Classification: | Chordata | Synapsida | Therapsida | Theriodontia | Gorgonopsia |
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Eriphostoma is an extinct genus of gorgonopsian therapsid known from the Middle Permian (middle Capitanian stage) of Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone, South Africa. It was first named by Robert Broom in 1911 and the type species is Eriphostoma microdon. A revision of Eriphostoma by Kammerer (2013) found it to represent the earliest known gorgonopsian.

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