| Anningia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Family: | †Varanopidae |
| Subfamily: | †Mesenosaurinae |
| Genus: | †Anningia |
| Species: | †A. megalops
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| Binomial name | |
| †Anningia megalops Broom, 1927
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Anningia is an extinct genus in Varanopidae, a family of monitor lizard-like amniotes. It contains a single species, Anningia megalops.[1]
The species was first described by Robert Broom in 1927 as a transitional species between early synapsids and later occurring therapsids.[2] While it was later suggested that the fossil material, a partial poorly preserved skull, was not diagnosable and that the species name is nomen vanum.[3] It was assigned to Varanopidae (subfamily Mesenosaurinae) in 2018.[4] The fossil is from the Permian of South Africa.
- ^ "Anningia megalops Broom 1927". Paleobiology Database.
- ^ Broom, R. (April 1927). "On a New Type of Mammal-like Reptile from the South African Karroo Beds Anningia megalops". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 97 (1): 227–232. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1927.tb02256.x. ISSN 0370-2774.
- ^ Reisz, RR; Dilkes, DW (1992). "The taxonomic position of Anningia megalops, a small amniote from the Permian of South Africa". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 29 (7): 1605–1608. doi:10.1139/e92-126.
- ^ Spindler, F.; Werneburg, R.; Schneider, J. W.; Luthardt, L.; Annacker, V.; Rößler, R. (2018). "First arboreal 'pelycosaurs' (Synapsida: Varanopidae) from the early Permian Chemnitz Fossil Lagerstätte, SE Germany, with a review of varanopid phylogeny". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 92 (2): 315–364. doi:10.1007/s12542-018-0405-9. S2CID 133846070.