Jonkeria

Jonkeria
Temporal range: Capitanian, 265–260 Ma
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Jonkeria truculenta skull, Amer. Mus. No. 5608 (holotype of J. ingens)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Suborder: †Dinocephalia
Family: †Titanosuchidae
Genus: †Jonkeria
Van Hoepen, 1916
Species:
†J. truculenta
Binomial name
†Jonkeria truculenta
Van Hoepen, 1916[1]
Synonyms[2]
Genus synonymy
  • Dinophoneus Broom, 1923
  • Dinosphageus Broom, 1929
  • Phoneosuchus Broom, 1929
Species synonymy
  • Dinophoneus ingens Broom, 1923
  • Dinosphageus haughtoni Broom, 1929
  • Jonkeria crassus Broom, 1929
  • Jonkeria pugnax Broom, 1929
  • Jonkeria vanderblyi Broom, 1929
  • Phoneosuchus angusticeps Broom, 1929
  • Jonkeria ingens Boonstra, 1935
  • Jonkeria angusticeps Boonstra, 1953
  • Jonkeria haughtoni Boonstra, 1953
  • Jonkeria parva Boonstra, 1955
  • Jonkeria rossouwi Boonstra, 1955
  • Jonkeria boonstraii Janensch, 1959

Jonkeria is an extinct genus of dinocephalians. Jonkeria was a large and omnivorous[3] animal, from the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone, Lower Beaufort Group, of the South African Karoo.

  1. ^ van Hoepen, E.C.N. (1916). "A new Karroo reptile". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 5 (3): 1.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Jirah2024 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Bhat, Mohd Shafi; Shelton, Christen D.; Chinsamy, Anusuya (15 October 2021). "Bone histology of the graviportal dinocephalian therapsid Jonkeria from the middle Permian Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone of the Karoo Basin of South Africa" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 66 (4): 705–721. doi:10.4202/app.00872.2021.