Extinct genus of reptiles
Doniceps extinct genus of reptile from the Early Triassic (late Olenekian stage) of European Russia known from the type species D. lipovensis . It was solely known from the holotype premaxilla 104/3106 housed at Saratov University , however the specimen is probably lost.[according to whom? It was collected at the Donskaya Luka Locality near the village of Sirotinskaya in Ilovlinsky District , Volgograd Oblast , from the Lipovskaya Formation of the Gamskii Horizon. The generic name refers to the nearby Don River added the Greek suffix for "head", -ceps . The specific name is derived from the name of the type locality Donskaya Luka, also known as Lipovaya Balka. Named by Otschev and Rykov in 1968 as an archosauromorph , Arkhangelskii & Sennikov (2008) classified the taxon as a possible trilophosaurid . Doniceps is thought to be similar to Coelodontognathus Vitalia procolophonids but later reclassified as trilophosaurids.[ 1] [ 2]
References
^ Sennikov, A. G. (2012). "The first ctenosauriscid (Reptilia: Archosauromorpha) from the Lower Triassic of Eastern Europe". Paleontological Journal . 46 (5): 499– 511. Bibcode :2012PalJ...46..499S . doi :10.1134/S0031030112050097 . S2CID 83717000 . ^ Arkhangelskii, M. S.; Sennikov, A. G. (2008). "Piskopaemye pozvonotchnye Rossii i sopredel'nykh stran: Piskopaemye reptilii i ptitsy. Tchast' 1. [Fossil vertebrates of Russia and adjacent countries: Fossil reptiles and birds. Part 1]". Podklass Synaptosauria. In M. F. Ivakhnenko and E. N. Kurotchkin (Eds.). GEOS. Moscow : 224– 243.
