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Rubidgea

Description

Rubidgea atrox is a genus of gorgonopsid from the upper Permian of South Africa and Tanzania. The generic name Rubidgea is taken from the surname of renowned Karoo paleontologist, Professor Bruce Rubidge, who has contributed to much of the research conducted on therapsids of the Karoo Basin. Its species name atrox is derived from Latin, meaning “fierce, savage, terrible”. Rubidgea is part of the gorgonopsian subfamily Rubidgeinae, a derived group of large-bodied gorgonopsians restricted to the Late Permian (Lopingian). The subfamily Rubidgeinae first appeared in the Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone. They reached their highest diversity in the Cistecephalus and Daptocephalus assemblage zones of the Beaufort Group in South Africa.


Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)3239122https://www.gbif.org/species/3239122
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)39123https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=39123
Rankgenus
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Gorgonopsidae : Rubidgea
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Gorgodontia : Gorgonopidae : Rubidgea
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SauropsidaHuxley 1864
classReptiliaLaurenti 1768
subclassTheromorpha
-Eotherapsida
superorderDinomorphaIvakhnenko 2003
orderGorgodontiaIvakhnenko 2003
suborderGorgonopsiaSeeley 1894
familyGorgonopidae
subfamilyRubidgeinaeBroom 1938
tribeRubidgeiniBroom 1938
genusRubidgeaBroom 1938
Scientific NameRubidgea Broom, 1938
Name Published InProc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 108B
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Rubidgeagenusbelongs to Gorgonopsiastated without evidenceBroom, 1948
Rubidgeagenusbelongs to GorgonopsidaeimpliedCarroll, 1988
Rubidgeagenusbelongs to Rubidgeinaestated with evidenceSigogneau-Russell, 1989
Rubidgeagenusbelongs to Rubidgeinistated with evidenceKammerer, 2016
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)2
First Recorded Appearance260 - 254 Ma
Permian
Last Recorded Appearance260 - 252 Ma
Permian
Environmentterrestrial (based on Amniota)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)
Dietcarnivore (based on Gorgonopsia)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)R. Broom. 1938. On a new family of carnivorous therapsids from the Karroo Beds of South Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (Series B) 108:527-533
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubidgea

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Rubidgea atrox
species
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
10260 Ma
Permian
260 Ma
Permian

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1938Rubidgea Broom
1948Rubidgea Broom
1953Broomicephalus Brink and Kitching
1988Rubidgea Carroll
1989Broomicephalus Sigogneau-Russell
1989Rubidgea Sigogneau-Russell
2002Titanogorgon Maisch
2016Rubidgea Kammerer

References

Broom R. (1938) On a new family of carnivorous therapsids from the Karroo Beds of South Africa, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (Series B) 108, 527-533
Broom R. (1948) A Contribution to our Knowledge of the Vertebrates of the Karroo Beds of South Africa, Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 61 2, 577-629
Brink A. S., Kitching J. W. (1953) Studies on new specimens of the Gorgonopsia, Palaeontologia Africana 1, 1-28
Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698
Sigogneau-Russell D. S. (1989) Theriodontia I: Phthinosuchia, Biarmosuchia, Eotitanosuchia, Gorgonopsia, Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology
Kammerer C. F. (2016) Systematics of the Rubidgeinae (Therapsida: Gorgonopsia), PeerJ 4, e1608 doi:10.7717/ peerj.1608
GBIF/Paleo Database - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 108B - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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