Lende is an extinct genus of biarmosuchian from Malawi. It contains one species, Lende chiweta,[1] first described by Jacobs and colleagues[3] in 2005 and is a burnetiamorph – a group of biarmosuchians characterized by numerous bosses and swellings on the skull.[4] The type specimen was discovered in the early 1990s in the Permian Lower Bone Bed (B1) of the Chiweta Beds of Malawi, which are believed to correlate with the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone of the South African Karoo Supergroup, the Usili Formation of Tanzania, and the Upper Madumabisa Mudstone of Zambia.[3][5] The holotype of the genus Lende is MAL 290, which comprises an almost complete skull and lower jaw.[2]
| Lende Temporal range: Lopingian
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| MAL 290, the holotype of Lende chiweta | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | †Biarmosuchia |
| Clade: | †Burnetiamorpha |
| Genus: | †Lende Kruger et al. 2015[2] |
| Type species | |
| Lende chiweta Kruger et al. 2015[2]
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References
edit- ^ a b "†Lende Kruger et al. 2015". Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- ^ a b c Kruger, Ashley; Rubidge, Bruce S.; Abdala, Fernando; Chindebvu, Elizabeth Gomani & Jacobs, Louis L. (2015). "Lende chiweta, a new therapsid from Malawi, and its influence on burnetiamorph phylogeny and biogeography". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (6): e1008698. doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.1008698. S2CID 83725100.
- ^ a b Jacobs, Louis L.; Winkler, Dale A.; Newman, Kent D.; Gomani, Elizabeth M. & Deino, Alan (2005). "Therapsids from the Permian Chiweta Beds and the age of the Karoo Supergroup in Malawi". Palaeontologia Electronica. 8 (1): 1–23.
- ^ Carrano, Matthew (2006). Amniote Paleobiology: Perspectives on the Evolution of Mammals, Birds and Reptiles. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226094782.
- ^ Sidor, Christian A.; Vilhena, Daril A.; Angielczyk, Kenneth D.; Huttenlocker, Adam K.; Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Peecook, Brandon R.; Steyer, J. Sébastien; Smith, Roger M. H. & Tsuji, Linda A. (2013). "Provincialization of terrestrial faunas following the end-Permian mass extinction". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 110 (20): 8129–8133. doi:10.1073/pnas.1302323110. PMC 3657826. PMID 23630295.