Glanosuchus

Glanosuchus Temporal range: Late Permian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Skulls in side view, including that of the holotype (A-B)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Synapsida
Clade:	Therapsida
Clade:	†Therocephalia
Family:	†Scylacosauridae
Genus:	†Glanosuchus Broom, 1904
Species:	†G. macrops
Binomial name
†Glanosuchus macrops Broom, 1904
Synonyms[1]
Genus synonymy Cynariognathus Broom, 1931 Walteria Brink & Kitching, 1951 Ptomalestes Boonstra, 1954 Karroowalteria Kuhn, 1958 Crapartinella Mendrez, 1975 Species synonymy Pristerognathus platyrhinus Broom, 1912 Cynariognathus platyrhinus Broom, 1931 Walteria skinneri Brink & Kitching, 1951 Cynariognathus paucioridens Boonstra, 1954 Ptomalestes avidus Boonstra, 1954 Alopecognathus skinneri Boonstra, 1969 Crapartinella croucheri Mendrez, 1975

Glanosuchus is a genus of scylacosaurid therocephalian from the Late Permian of South Africa. The type species G. macrops was named by Robert Broom in 1904. Glanosuchus had a middle ear structure that was intermediate between that of early therapsids and mammals. Ridges in the nasal cavity of Glanosuchus suggest it had an at least partially endothermic metabolism similar to modern mammals.