Pravoslavlevia
Fossil rangeLate Permian
TaxonPravoslavlevia
AuthorityVjuschkov, 1953
Type speciesPravoslavlevia parva
Type species authorityVjuschkov, 1953

Pravoslavlevia is an extinct genus of gorgonopsian therapsids that lived in the late Permian and is part of the Sokolki subcomplex of Russia. It had a skull 22 centimetres (8.7 in) long. The total length of the animal was about 1.4 metres (4 ft 7 in). Only one species (P. parva) is known.[citation needed]

Classification

The following cladogram showing the position of Pravoslavlevia within Gorgonopsia follows Kammerer and Masyutin, 2018:[1]

See also

Sources

  1. ^ Kammerer, Christian F. & Masyutin, Vladimir (2018). "Gorgonopsian therapsids (Nochnitsa gen. nov. and Viatkogorgon) from the Permian Kotelnich locality of Russia". PeerJ. 6. doi:10.7717/peerj.4954. PMC 5995105