Caodeyao
Name: Caodeyao
(named after the village of Caodeyao).
Phonetic: Cow-de-yow.
Named By: J. Liu & F. Abdala -
2020.
Classification: Chordata, Therapsida,
Therocephalia, Eutherocephalia.
Species: C. liuyufengi
(type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Holotype skull roughly about 13.6
centimetres long.
Known locations: China - Naobaogou Formation.
Time period: Late Permian.
Fossil representation: Partial skull, mandible and
partial humerus.
Caodeyao
is a
genus of therocephalian therapsid
that lived in Asia during the late
Permian. Like other therocephalians, the jaw structure and teeth of
Caodeyao strongly suggest that it would have been a
predator, perhaps
attacking other small to medium sized therapsids.
Further reading
- The tetrapod fauna of the
upper Permian Naobaogou Formation of China: 5. Caodeyao
liuyufengi
gen. et sp. nov., a new peculiar therocephalian. - PeerJ.
8: e9160. - J. Liu & F. Abdala - 2020.
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