Syops

{{Short description|Extinct genus Anthony Sides owner of dicynodonts}}

{{Distinguish|Psyops}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Syops

| fossil_range = Late Permian
~{{fossil range|259|254}}

| authority = Kammerer et al. 2011

| type_species = {{extinct}}S. vanhoepeni

| type_species_authority = (Boonstra 1938)

}}

Syops is an extinct genus of dicynodont therapsid.{{cite journal |last=Kammerer |first=C.F. |author2=Angielczyk, K.D. |author3= Fröbisch, J. |year=2011 |title=A comprehensive taxonomic revision of Dicynodon (Therapsida, Anomodontia) and its implications for dicynodont phylogeny, biogeography, and biostratigraphy |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=31 |issue=Suppl. 1 |pages=1–158 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2011.627074|bibcode=2011JVPal..31S...1K |s2cid=84987497 }} The type species S. vanhoepeni was first named in 1938 as Dicynodon vanhoepeni. Fossils of the genus have been found in the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone in the Usili Formation of the Ruhuhu Basin, Tanzania and the Upper Madumabisa Mudstone Formation of the Luangwa Basin, Zambia.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=196700 Syops] at Fossilworks.org Its phylogenetic placement is somewhat uncertain, with multiple different studies finding it as either a basal geikiid,{{Cite journal | last1 = Kammerer | first1 = C. F. | last2 = Fröbisch | first2 = J. R. | last3 = Angielczyk | first3 = K. D. | editor1-last = Farke | editor1-first = Andrew A | title = On the Validity and Phylogenetic Position of Eubrachiosaurus browni, a Kannemeyeriiform Dicynodont (Anomodontia) from Triassic North America | doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0064203 | journal = PLOS ONE | volume = 8 | issue = 5 | pages = e64203 | year = 2013 | pmid = 23741307| pmc = 3669350| bibcode = 2013PLoSO...864203K | doi-access = free }} rhachiocephalid{{cite journal|last1=Kammerer|first1=C.F.|last2=Smith|first2=R.M.H.|date=2017|title=An early geikiid dicynodont from the Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone (late Permian) of South Africa|journal=PeerJ|language=en|volume=5|pages=e2913|doi=10.7717/peerj.2913|pmid=28168104|issn=2167-8359|pmc=5289114 |doi-access=free }} a dicynodontoid more derived than the most basal genera but less derived than Lystrosauridae,{{cite journal |last1=Angielczyk |first1=K.D. |last2=Kammerer |first2=C.F. |title=The cranial morphology, phylogenetic position and biogeography of the upper Permian dicynodont Compsodon helmoedi van Hoepen (Therapsida, Anomodontia) |journal=Papers in Palaeontology |date=2017 |volume=3 |issue=4 |pages=513–545 |doi=10.1002/spp2.1087|s2cid=134092461 |doi-access= }}{{cite journal |last1=Liu |first1=Jun |year=2020 |title=Taoheodon baizhijuni, gen. et sp. nov. (Anomodontia, Dicynodontoidea), from the upper Permian Sunjiagou Formation of China and its implications |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=40|pages=e1762088 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2020.1762088|bibcode=2020JVPal..40E2088L |s2cid=221749476 }} or a lystrosaurid.{{Cite journal|last1=Angielczyk |first1=K. D. |last2=Liu |first2=J. |last3=Yang |first3=W. |year=2021 |title=A Redescription of Kunpania scopulusa, a Bidentalian Dicynodont (Therapsida, Anomodontia) from the ?Guadalupian of Northwestern China |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=41 |pages=e1922428 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2021.1922428 |bibcode=2021JVPal..41E2428A |s2cid=236406006 |doi-access= }}