Lophorhinus is an extinct genus of biarmosuchian therapsids from the Late Permian of South Africa. The type species L. willodenensis was named in 2007.[1] It is known from the anterior half of a skull.[1]
| Lophorhinus Temporal range: Late Permian
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| Life restoration of Lophorhinus willodenensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | †Biarmosuchia |
| Clade: | †Burnetiamorpha |
| Genus: | †Lophorhinus Sidor and Smith, 2007 |
| Type species | |
| †L. willodenensis Sidor and Smith, 2007
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References
edit- ^ a b Sidor, C.A.; Smith, R.M.H. (2007). "A second burnetiamorph therapsid from the Permian Teekloof Formation of South Africa and its associated fauna". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 27 (2): 420–430. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[420:ASBTFT]2.0.CO;2.
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