''Mobaceras'' is an extinct genus of
biarmosuchian
Biarmosuchia is an extinct clade of non-mammalian synapsids from the Permian. Biarmosuchians are the most basal group of the therapsids. They were moderately-sized, lightly built carnivores, intermediate in form between basal sphenacodont "pelyc ...
therapsids in the family
Burnetiidae
Burnetiidae is an extinct family of biarmosuchian therapsids that lived in the Permian period whose fossils are found in South Africa, Zambia and Russia. It contains ''Bondoceras'', ''Bullacephalus'', ''Burnetia'', ''Mobaceras'', ''Niuksenitia'' ...
from the
Guadalupian
The Guadalupian is the second and middle Series (stratigraphy), series/Epoch (geology), epoch of the Permian. The Guadalupian was preceded by the Cisuralian and followed by the Lopingian. It is named after the Guadalupe Mountains of New Mexico an ...
of
Zambia
Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern and East Africa. It is typically referred to being in South-Central Africa or Southern Africa. It is bor ...
. The type species is ''M. zambeziense''.
References
Burnetiamorpha
Prehistoric therapsid genera
Guadalupian synapsids of Africa
Fossils of Zambia
Fossil taxa described in 2021
Taxa named by Christian F. Kammerer
Taxa named by Christian Sidor
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