Pravoslavlevia

Pravoslavlevia
Temporal range: Late Permian
Pravoslavlevia parva
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: †Gorgonopsia
Family: †Gorgonopsidae
Subfamily: †Inostranceviinae
Genus: †Pravoslavlevia
Vjuschkov, 1953
Type species
†Pravoslavlevia parva
Vjuschkov, 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

Pravoslavlevia

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

Gorgonopsia

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: e4954. doi:10.7717/peerj.4954. PMC 5995105.


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