''Proburnetia'' is an extinct genus of

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

therapsids in the family

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

, 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

Burnetiamorpha 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