Burnetiidae
Extinct family of therapsids
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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]
| Burnetiidae Temporal range: Middle - Late Permian | |
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| Life restoration of Proburnetia viatkensis, a burnetiid from the Late Permian of Russia | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | †Biarmosuchia |
| Clade: | †Burnetiamorpha |
| Family: | †Burnetiidae Broom, 1923 |
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