Sycosaurus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of therapsids}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Late Permian{{cite web|url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=140786|title=Sycosaurus|publisher=Fossilworks}} {{fossil_range|259|252.3}}

| image = Sycosaurus.png

| image_upright = 1.15

| image_caption = Holotype skull of S. laticeps

| taxon = Sycosaurus

| authority = Haughton, 1924

| type_species = Sycosaurus laticeps

| type_species_authority = Haughton, 1924

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• {{extinct}}S. laticeps Haughton, 1924
• {{extinct}}S. nowaki Broili & Schröder, 1936

| synonyms =

Genus-level

• Tetraodon Broili & Schröder, 1936
• Tetradontonius Kuhn, 1961
• Cephalicustriodus Parrington, 1974

S. nowaki

• Tetraodon nowaki Broili & Schröder, 1936
• Lycaenops kingoriensis Huene, 1950
• Tetraodontonius nowaki Kuhn, 1961
• Leontocephalus intactus Kemp, 1969

}}

File:Sycosaurus kingor1.jpg

File:Sycosaurus nowaki.png

Sycosaurus is an extinct genus of rubidgeine gorgonopsians from the Wuchiapingian (Upper Permian) Cistecephalus zone of South Africa. It was medium-sized, about 1.2 m in length.{{Cite web |title=Sycosaurus - Palaeocritti - a guide to prehistoric animals |url=http://www.palaeocritti.com/by-group/gorgonopsia/sycosaurus |website=www.palaeocritti.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314233104/http://www.palaeocritti.com/by-group/gorgonopsia/sycosaurus |archive-date=March 14, 2016 |url-status=dead}} It was first named by Haughton in 1924, and contains two species, S. laticeps and S. nowaki.Kammerer CF. (2016) Systematics of the Rubidgeinae (Therapsida: Gorgonopsia) PeerJ 4:e1608 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1608