Isengops
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| Isengops Temporal range: Late Permian, | |
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| Holotype specimen (NHCC LB363) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | †Biarmosuchia |
| Clade: | †Burnetiamorpha |
| Genus: | †Isengops Sidor, Tabor & Smith, 2021 |
| Species: | †I. luangwensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Isengops luangwensis Sidor, Tabor & Smith, 2021 | |
Isengops (lit. 'horn face') is an extinct genus of burnetiamorph therapsid from the Late Permian of Zambia. The genus contains a single species, Isengops luangwensis, known from a partial skull. It is characterized by a nasal ridge, tall, triangular bosses over the orbits, and paired supratemporal "horns".[1]
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