Annatherapsidus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}}

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| image = Annatherapsidus1DB.jpg

| taxon = Annatherapsidus

| authority = Kuhn, 1961

| type_species = {{extinct}}Anna petri

| type_species_authority = Amalitzky, 1922

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = * {{extinct}}A. petri (Amalitzky, 1922 [originally Anna petri]) (type)

• {{extinct}}A. postum Ivachnenko, 2011.

| synonyms = *Anna Amalitzky, 1922 (preoccupied Risso, 1826)

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Image:Annatherapsidus petri .jpg

Annatherapsidus is an extinct genus of therocephalians from the Upper Permian of Russia.{{Cite journal |last=Amalitzky |first=V.P. |date=1922 |title=Diagnoses of the new forms of vertebrates and plants from the Upper Permian of North Dvina |journal=Izv. Ross. Akad. Nauk |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=1-12}}{{Cite journal |last=Ivakhnenko |first=M.F. |date=2011 |title=Permian and Triassic Therocephals (Eutherapsida) of Eastern Europe. |journal=Paleontological Journal |volume=45 |issue=9 |pages=981-1144}} It was a fairly small animal with a length of 91 cm and a 22 cm skull.{{Cite journal |last=Amalitzky |first=V.P. |date=1927 |title=The Northern Dvina therocephal Anna petro gen. et. sp. nov. |journal=Dvinskie raskopki prof. V.P. Amalitskogo (Northern Dvina Excavations of Prof. V.P. Amalitzky) |volume=5}} It was originally named Anna petri, but the genus name was already taken, so it was renamed to Annatherapsidus.{{Cite book |last=Kuhn |first=O. |title=Die Familien der recenten und fossilien Amphibien und Reptilien |publisher=Verlag |year=1961 |location=Bamberg |language=German}}