''Scylacosaurus'' is an extinct genus of

therocephalian Therocephalia is an extinct clade of therapsids (mammals and their close extinct relatives) from the Permian and Triassic periods. The therocephalians ("beast-heads") are named after their large skulls, which, along with the structure of their te ...

therapsids that lived during the

Permian The Permian ( ) is a geologic period and System (stratigraphy), 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 251.902 Mya. It is the s ...

period. It contains one species Scylacosaurus sclateri.

References

Scylacosauridae Therocephalia genera Permian synapsids Lopingian synapsids of Africa Fossil taxa described in 1903 Taxa named by Robert Broom {{paleo-therapsid-stub