Rubidgina is a genus of Biarmosuchian therapsid from Patrysfontein, Wellwood, South Africa known from RC 55, a skull with lower jaws. This specimen is a putative juvenile.[2] It has been suggested that this specimen actually represents a juvenile of Herpetoskylax hopsoni.[3] However, because the specimen lacks distinctive features, it cannot be determined if it is actually a juvenile of Herpetoskylax or if its current name of Rubidgina should remain.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | †Biarmosuchia |
| Genus: | †Rubidgina Broom, 1942 |
| Species: | †R. angusticeps[1]
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| †Rubidgina angusticeps[1] Broom, 1942
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References
edit- ^ "Fossilworks: Rubidgina".
- ^ a b Duhamel, Alienor; Benoit, Julien; Day, Michael; Rubidge, Bruce; Fernandez, Vincent (2021). "Computed Tomography elucidates ontogeny within the basal therapsid clade Biarmosuchia". PeerJ. 9: e11866. doi:10.7717/peerj.11866. PMC 8403480. PMID 34527434. S2CID 237512866.
- ^ Sidor, A; Rubidge, S (2014). "Herpetoskylax hopsoni, a New Biarmosuchian (Therapsida: Biarmosuchia) from the Beaufort Group of South Africa (project)". MorphoBank datasets. doi:10.7934/p727. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
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