Named By: | C. A. Sidor & R. M. H. Smith in 2007 |
Time Period: | Late Permian |
Location: | South Africa - Teekloof Formation |
Size: | Reconstructed skull estimates at about 20 centimetres long. Total body length roughly estimated to be about 1 meter long |
Diet: | Carnivore |
Fossil(s): | Partial skull |
Classification: | | Chordata | Synapsida | Therapsida | Biarmosuchia | Burnetiamorpha | |
Lophorhinus is an extinct genus of biarmosuchian therapsid from the Late Permian of South Africa. The type species L. willodenensis was named in 2007.