| Aversor Temporal range: Early Permian, Ufimian (late Kungurian) | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
| Clade: | Tetrapodomorpha |
| Order: | † Embolomeri |
| Family: | † Eogyrinidae |
| Genus: | † Aversor Gubin, 1985 |
| Type species | |
| Aversor dmitrievi Gubin, 1985 | |
Aversor is an extinct genus of embolomere which lived in the Early Permian of Russia. It contains a single species, Aversor dmitrievi, which is based on skull and jaw fragments from the Intinskaya Svita (Inta Formation) near Pechora. [1] It may have been the youngest known eogyrinid, and was the youngest known embolomere until the discovery of Seroherpeton , a Late Permian embolomere described in 2020. Aversor and Seroherpeton both lived at higher latitudes than older embolomeres, suggesting that the group abandoned arid equatorial areas prior to their final demise. [2]
