Pravoslavlevia is an extinct genus of gorgonopsian therapsids that lived in the late Permian and is part of the Sokolki subcomplex of Russia. It had a skull 22 centimetres (8.7 in) long. The total length of the animal was about 1.4 metres (4 ft 7 in). Only one species (P. parva) is known.[citation needed]

Pravoslavlevia
Temporal range: Late Permian
Pravoslavlevia parva
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: Gorgonopsia
Family: Gorgonopsidae
Subfamily: Inostranceviinae
Genus: Pravoslavlevia
Vjuschkov, 1953
Type species
Pravoslavlevia parva
Vjuschkov, 1953

Classification

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Pravoslavlevia

The following cladogram showing the position of Pravoslavlevia within Gorgonopsia follows Kammerer and Masyutin, 2018:[1]

Gorgonopsia

See also

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Sources

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  1. ^ Kammerer, Christian F. & Masyutin, Vladimir (2018). "Gorgonopsian therapsids (Nochnitsa gen. nov. and Viatkogorgon) from the Permian Kotelnich locality of Russia". PeerJ. 6: e4954. doi:10.7717/peerj.4954. PMC 5995105.