Gansurhinus

Gansurhinus
Temporal range: Guadalupian–Lopingian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Family: †Captorhinidae
Subfamily: †Moradisaurinae
Genus: †Gansurhinus
Reisz et al., 2011
Species
  • † G. naobaogouensis Liu, 2023
  • †G. qingtoushanensis Reisz et al., 2011 (type)

Gansurhinus is an extinct genus of moradisaurine captorhinid known from the Middle Permian Qingtoushan Formation of the Qilian Mountains and the Late Permian Naobaogou Formation in the Daqing Mountains of China. It was first named by Robert R. Reisz, Jun Liu, Jin-Ling Li and Johannes Müller in 2011 and the type species is Gansurhinus qingtoushanensis.[1] A second species, Gansurhinus naobaogouensis, was described in 2023 based on a relatively complete skeleton of an immature individual.[2]

  1. ^ Robert R. Reisz; Jun Liu; Jin-Ling Li; Johannes Müller (2011). "A new captorhinid reptile, Gansurhinus qingtoushanensis, gen. et sp. nov., from the Permian of China". Naturwissenschaften. 98 (5): 435–441. Bibcode:2011NW.....98..435R. doi:10.1007/s00114-011-0793-0. PMID 21484260. S2CID 20274349.
  2. ^ Liu, Jun (2023-05-09). "The tetrapod fauna of the upper Permian Naobaogou Formation of China: 9. A new species of Gansurhinus (Reptilia: Captorhinidae) and a revision of Chinese captorhinids". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 42 (5): e2203200. doi:10.1080/02724634.2023.2203200. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 243245020.