Rubidgina

Rubidgina is a genus of Biarmosuchian therapsid from Patrysfontein, Wellwood, South Africa known from RC 55, a skull with lower jaws. This specimen is a putative juvenile.^[2] It has been suggested that this specimen actually represents a juvenile of Herpetoskylax hopsoni.^[3] However, because the specimen lacks distinctive features, it cannot be determined if it is actually a juvenile of Herpetoskylax or if its current name of Rubidgina should remain.^[2]

Rubidgina Temporal range: 259–254 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Synapsida
Clade:	Therapsida
Suborder:	†Biarmosuchia
Genus:	†Rubidgina Broom, 1942
Species:	†R. angusticeps[1]
Binomial name
†Rubidgina angusticeps[1] Broom, 1942

References

1. "Fossilworks: Rubidgina".
2. Duhamel, Alienor; Benoit, Julien; Day, Michael; Rubidge, Bruce; Fernandez, Vincent (2021). "Computed Tomography elucidates ontogeny within the basal therapsid clade Biarmosuchia". PeerJ. 9: e11866. doi:10.7717/peerj.11866. PMC 8403480. PMID 34527434. S2CID 237512866.
3. Sidor, A; Rubidge, S (2014). "Herpetoskylax hopsoni, a New Biarmosuchian (Therapsida: Biarmosuchia) from the Beaufort Group of South Africa (project)". MorphoBank datasets. doi:10.7934/p727. Retrieved 2022-12-28.