Burnetiidae Temporal range: Middle - Late Permian | |
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Life restoration of Proburnetia viatkensis , a burnetiid from the Late Permian of Russia | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Suborder: | † Biarmosuchia |
Clade: | † Burnetiamorpha |
Family: | † Burnetiidae Broom, 1923 |
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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 , Paraburnetia and Proburnetia . [1] [2]