''Alrausuchus'' is an extinct genus of

biarmosuchian Biarmosuchians are an extinct clade of non-mammalian synapsids from the Permian. They are the most basal group of the therapsids. All of them were moderately-sized, lightly-built carnivores, intermediate in form between basal sphenacodont "pelyco ...

therapsid Therapsida is a major group of eupelycosaurian synapsids that includes mammals, their ancestors and relatives. Many of the traits today seen as unique to mammals had their origin within early therapsids, including limbs that were oriented mor ...

s from

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. It was named by M.F. Ivakhnenko in 2008, as a reclassification of the species ''

Biarmosuchus ''Biarmosuchus'' is an extinct genus of biarmosuchian therapsids that lived around 267 mya during the Middle Permian period. ''Biarmosuchus'' was discovered in the Perm region of Russia. The first specimen was found in channel sandstone that wa ...

tagax'' that Ivachnenko had named in 1990. Ivachnenko erected the monotypic family Alrausuchidae for the genus.

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Biarmosuchians Prehistoric therapsid genera Permian Russia Fossils of Russia Fossil taxa described in 2008 {{paleo-therapsid-stub