| 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]