''Cerdorhinus'' is an extinct

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

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

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 the

Permian The Permian ( ) is a geologic period and stratigraphic system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic Period 251.9 Mya. It is the last period of the Pale ...

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring count ...

. The

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen( ...

''Cerdorhinus parvidens'' was named by South African paleontologist

Robert Broom Robert Broom FRS FRSE (30 November 1866 6 April 1951) was a British- South African doctor and palaeontologist. He qualified as a medical practitioner in 1895 and received his DSc in 1905 from the University of Glasgow. From 1903 to 1910, ...

in 1936. A second species, ''Cerdorhinus rubidgei'', was named in 1937. In 2007, a specimen of the latter was reassigned to the genus ''

Cyonosaurus ''Cyonosaurus'' is a genus of gorgonopsian therapsids from the late Permian and possibly early Triassic of South Africa. ''Cyonosaurus'' was in length, with a skull in length. The type species ''Cyonosaurus longiceps'' was named in 1937. See ...

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Gorgonopsia Prehistoric therapsid genera Permian synapsids of Africa Fossil taxa described in 1936 Taxa named by Robert Broom {{paleo-therapsid-stub