''Broomisaurus'' is an extinct genus of

Gorgonopsia Gorgonopsia (from the Greek Gorgon, a mythological beast, and 'aspect') is an extinct clade of sabre-toothed therapsids from the Middle to Upper Permian roughly 265 to 252 million years ago. They are characterised by a long and narrow skull, ...

. It was first named by Joleaud in 1920, and contains the single species ''B. planiceps''. Gebauer (2007) considered ''Broomisaurus'' to be a ''

nomen dubium In binomial nomenclature, a ''nomen dubium'' (Latin for "doubtful name", plural ''nomina dubia'') is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application. Zoology In case of a ''nomen dubium'' it may be impossible to determine whether a s ...

'', indistinguishable as a separate taxon of gorgonopsian because it is based on only a fragmentary remains. A 2015 paper on '' Eriphostoma'' tentatively agreed with Gebauer's determination, but did not rule out the possibility that ''Broomisaurus'' might be synonymous with ''Eriphostoma.''Christian F. Kammerer, Roger M. H. Smith, Michael O. Day and Bruce S. Rubidge (2015) New information on the morphology and stratigraphic range of the mid-Permian gorgonopsian Eriphostoma microdon Broom, 1911. Papers in Palaeontology (advance online publication) DOI: 10.1002/spp2.1012 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.1012/abstract

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*''Palaeontologia Africana''; page 106. By the Bernard Price Institute for Paleontological Research, published 1953.
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