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| image = Purlovia maxima.jpg |
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| image_caption = Restoration of ''Purlovia maxima'' |
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| taxon = Purlovia |
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| authority = Ivakhnenko, [[2011 in paleontology|2011]] |
| authority = Ivakhnenko, [[2011 in paleontology|2011]] |
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| type_species = {{extinct}}'''''P. maxima''''' |
| type_species = {{extinct}}'''''P. maxima''''' |
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| type_species_authority = Ivakhnenko, 2011 |
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'''''Purlovia''''' is an extinct genus of herbivorous [[therocephalia]]n [[therapsid]]s from the [[Late Permian]] of [[Russia]]. Together with the closely related [[South Africa]]n genus ''[[Nanictidops]]'', it is a member of the family [[Nanictidopidae]]. Fossils have been found from the [[Tonshayevsky District]] of [[Nizhny Novgorod Oblast]]. The [[type species]] of ''Purlovia'', ''P. maxima'', was named in 2011. |
'''''Purlovia''''' is an extinct genus of herbivorous [[therocephalia]]n [[therapsid]]s from the [[Late Permian]] of [[Russia]]. Together with the closely related [[South Africa]]n genus ''[[Nanictidops]]'', it is a member of the family [[Nanictidopidae]]. Fossils have been found from the [[Tonshayevsky District]] of [[Nizhny Novgorod Oblast]]. The [[type species]] of ''Purlovia'', ''P. maxima'', was named in 2011. |
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| Purlovia Temporal range: Late Permian
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | †Therocephalia |
| Family: | †Nanictidopidae |
| Genus: | †Purlovia Ivakhnenko, 2011 |
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| †P. maxima Ivakhnenko, 2011
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Purlovia is an extinct genus of herbivorous therocephalian therapsids from the Late Permian of Russia. Together with the closely related South African genus Nanictidops, it is a member of the family Nanictidopidae. Fossils have been found from the Tonshayevsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. The type species of Purlovia, P. maxima, was named in 2011.
In comparison to other therocephalians, Purlovia has a very wide skull due to a widened temporal region. Viewed from above, it looks roughly triangular. The skull is about 20 centimetres (7.9 in) long, with nearly half its length in the postorbital region behind the eye sockets. It has large canine teeth and smaller buccal, or cheek teeth, along the thick upper and lower jaws. The lower jaw is robust and curved upward, with a well-developed symphyseal region where the two halves of the jaw meet.[1]
References
- ^ Ivakhnenko, M.F. (2011). "Permian and Triassic therocephals (Eutherapsida) of Eastern Europe". Paleontological Journal. 45 (9): 981–1144. doi:10.1134/S0031030111090012.
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