Gorynychus masyutinae

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Cladus: Sarcopterygii
Cladus: Rhipidistia
Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha
Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes
Cladus: Elpistostegalia
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Cladus: Synapsida
Cladus: Eupelycosauria
Cladus: Sphenacodontia
Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea
Cladus: Therapsida
Subordo: †Therocephalia
Familia: Incertae sedis
Genus: †Gorynychus
Species: †Gorynychus masyutinae

Name

• †Gorynychus masyutinae Kammerer & Masyutin, 2018: 4

Holotype: KPM 346–349, a single individual (skull and cervical vertebrae in articulation, pectoral and rib elements disarticulated but directly associated with skull) broken into four pieces.

Type locality and horizon: “in the lower red beds (Vanyushonki Member). ... 10.15 m below the marker bed and 413 m upstream from the village of Nizhnyaya Vodskaya.”

References

Primary references

• Kammerer, C.F. & Masyutin, V. 2018. A new therocephalian (Gorynychus masyutinae gen. et sp. nov.) from the Permian Kotelnich locality, Kirov Region, Russia. PeerJ 6: e4933. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.4933 Reference page.