Cynariops

{{Short description|Genus of gorgonopsians}} {{Speciesbox | fossil_range = Permian | image = Cynariops skull.png | image_caption = Skull MB.R.999 | genus = Cynariops | parent_authority = Broom, 1925 | species = robustus | authority = Broom, 1925 }}

'''''Cynariops''''' is an extinct genus of gorgonopsian that lived in what is now South Africa during the Permian. The holotype skull specimen BMNH R5743 was made the basis of the new genus and species ''Cynariops robustus'' by Robert Broom in 1925,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Broom |first=Robert |date=1925 |title=On some carnivorous therapsids |journal=Records of the Albany Museum |volume=25 |pages=309-326}}</ref> but the genus was later synonymised with other genera such as ''Scylacognathus''.<ref>D.S. Sigogneau-Russell. 1989. ''Theriodontia I: Phthinosuchia, Biarmosuchia, Eotitanosuchia, Gorgonopsia - Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology''</ref> Specimen MB.R.999 was catalogued as a specimen of ''Aelurognathus'' at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, until it was further prepared and described in 2018, and the genus ''Cynariops'' resurrected.<ref name="Bendel2018">{{cite journal |last1=Bendel |first1=Eva-Maria |last2=Kammerer |first2=Christian F. |last3=Kardjilov |first3=Nikolay |last4=Fernandez |first4=Vincent |last5=Fröbisch |first5=Jörg |title=Cranial anatomy of the gorgonopsian Cynariops robustus based on CT-reconstruction |journal=PLOS ONE |date=2018 |volume=13 |issue=11 |article-number=e0207367 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0207367|pmid=30485338 |pmc=6261584 |doi-access=free }}</ref> [[File:Cynariops robustus head.png|thumb|left|Life restoration]]

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Category:Gorgonopsia Category:Prehistoric therapsid genera Category:Taxa named by Robert Broom Category:Fossil taxa described in 1925