''Arctops'' ("Bear face") is an
extinct
Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...
genus of
gorgonopsian
therapsids known from the
Late Permian of
South Africa. It measured up to in length and its skull was long.
The
type species is ''Arctops willistoni''. A second
species, ''A. watsoni'', may be synonymous with ''A. willistoni''. ''A. kitchingi'' may be a third species of ''Arctops'', but it was only tentatively assigned to the genus when it was first named.
Both were formally synonymized with ''A. willistoni'' by Christian Kammerer in 2017.
References
Gorgonopsia
Prehistoric therapsid genera
Lopingian synapsids of Africa
Fossil taxa described in 1914
Taxa named by D. M. S. Watson
Lopingian genus first appearances
Lopingian genus extinctions
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