| Inostranceviines Temporal range: Lopingian, | |
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| Visualized head of Inostrancevia latifrons . | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | † Gorgonopsia |
| Family: | † Gorgonopsidae |
| Subfamily: | † Inostranceviinae Pravoslavlev, 1927 [1] |
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Inostranceviinae is an extinct subfamily of gorgonopsid therapsids that lived during the Late Permian. Only two genera are known, both from Russia. [2]
Inostrancevia is an extinct genus of large carnivorous therapsids who lived during the Late Permian in what is now European Russia. The first known fossils of this gorgonopsian were discovered in Northern Dvina, where two almost complete skeletons was exhumed. Subsequently, several other fossil material was discovered in various oblasts, and these finds will lead to a confusion about the exact number of valid species, before only three of them where officially recognized : I. alexandri, I. latifrons and I. uralensis. The genus is named in honor of Alexander Inostrantsev, professor of Vladimir P. Amalitsky, the paleontologist who described the taxon.
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