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| Gorynychus Temporal range:
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| Holotype skull of G. masyutinae | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | †Therocephalia |
| Genus: | †Gorynychus Kammerer & Masyutin, 2018 |
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| †Gorynychus masyutinae Kammerer & Masyutin, 2018
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Gorynychus is a genus of therocephalian from the mid-Permian from Kotelnich, Russia. The genus contains two species, G. masyutinae and G. sundyrensis. It was named after the three-headed dragon Zmey Gorynych (Змей Горыныч) from Russian mythology.[1][2][3]
- ^ Kammerer, CF; Masyutin, V. (2018). "A new therocephalian (Gorynychus masyutinae gen. et sp. nov.) from the Permian Kotelnich locality, Kirov Region, Russia". PeerJ. 6: e4933. doi:10.7717/peerj.4933. PMC 5995100. PMID 29900076.
- ^ North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (June 8, 2018). "'Monstrous' new Russian saber-tooth fossils clarify early evolution of mammal lineage". ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 13, 2018.
- ^ Suchkova, J.A.; Golubev, V.K. (2019). "New Permian therocephalian (Therocephalia, Theromorpha) from the Sundyr Assemblage of Eastern Europe". Paleontological Journal (4): 87–92. doi:10.1134/S0031031X19040123.