''Proburnetia'' 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 ...

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Burnetiidae Burnetiidae is an extinct family of biarmosuchian therapsids that lived in the Permian period whose fossils are found in South Africa and Russia. It contains ''Bullacephalus'', ''Burnetia'', ''Mobaceras'', ''Niuksenitia ''Niuksenitia'' is an ...

, from the

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. It had bizarre bumps and protrusions on its skull. ''Proburnetia'' had a 20 cm skull, and a total length up to 1.5 m.

References

Burnetiamorphs Prehistoric therapsid genera Lopingian synapsids of Europe Permian Russia Fossils of Russia Fossil taxa described in 1968 Taxa named by Leonid Petrovich Tatarinov {{paleo-therapsid-stub