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Jonkeria
Extinct genus of therapsids / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jonkeria is an extinct genus of dinocephalians. Jonkeria was a large and omnivorous[3] animal, from the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone, Lower Beaufort Group, of the South African Karoo.
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Jonkeria | |
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Jonkeria truculenta skull, Amer. Mus. No. 5608 (holotype of J. ingens) | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Suborder: | †Dinocephalia |
Family: | †Titanosuchidae |
Genus: | †Jonkeria Van Hoepen, 1916 |
Species: | †J. truculenta |
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†Jonkeria truculenta Van Hoepen, 1916[1] | |
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