Microurania [1] ( lat. Microurania ) is a genus of primitive therapids from the suborder of deinocephalus , the only one in the family Microuraniidae. They lived during the “middle” Permian ( 268.0–252.3 million years ago) in the territory of the modern Orenburg region ( Russia ) [2] .
| † Micronesia |
Reconstruction of the head of Microurania minima |
| Scientific classification |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
| Suborder : | † Deinacephalus |
| Infrastructure : | † Eotitanosuchus |
| Family: | † Microuraniidae Ivakhnenko, 1995 |
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| International scientific name |
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Microurania Ivakhnenko , 1995 |
Geochronology268.0–252.3 Ma | million years | Period | Era | Aeon |
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| 2,588 | Even | | | Ka | F
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th | | 23.03 | Neogene | | 66.0 | Paleogen | | 145.5 | a piece of chalk | M
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th | | 199.6 | Yura | | 251 | Triassic | | 299 | Permian | P
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◄ Nowadays◄ Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction◄ Triassic extinction◄ Mass Permian Extinction◄ Devonian extinction◄ Ordovician-Silurian extinction◄ Cambrian explosion |
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The genus was described by M.F. Ivakhnenko in 1995 from the Lower Tatar Permian deposits of the Urals . Included in the Isheevsky faunistic complex.
Content
A small animal with a skull length of about 5 cm. The skull has a superficial resemblance to the biarmosuchia skull. The muzzle is high, the bones of the skull are sculpted, minimal pachyostosis of the roof of the skull is developed. “Fangs” are small, cheek teeth are serrated, quite numerous. Incisors with a "heel", enlarged. Probably omnivores, with a shift to herbivores.
