{{Short description|Extinct genus of therapsids}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = Late Permian<ref name=Fossilworks>{{cite web|url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=140786|title=Sycosaurus|publisher=Fossilworks}}</ref> {{fossil_range|259|252.3}} | image = Sycosaurus.png | image_upright = 1.15 | image_caption = Holotype skull of ''S. laticeps'' | taxon = Sycosaurus | authority = Haughton, 1924 | type_species = '''''Sycosaurus laticeps''''' | type_species_authority = Haughton, 1924 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = * {{extinct}}'''''S. laticeps''''' <small>Haughton, 1924</small> * {{extinct}}'''''S. nowaki''''' <small>Broili & Schröder, 1936</small> | synonyms = '''Genus-level''' * ''Tetraodon'' <small>Broili & Schröder, 1936</small> * ''Tetradontonius'' <small>Kuhn, 1961</small> * ''Cephalicustriodus'' <small>Parrington, 1974</small> '''''S. nowaki''''' *''Tetraodon nowaki'' <small>Broili & Schröder, 1936</small> *''Lycaenops kingoriensis'' <small>Huene, 1950</small> *''Tetraodontonius nowaki'' <small>Kuhn, 1961</small> *''Leontocephalus intactus'' <small>Kemp, 1969</small> }} thumb|left|Restoration of ''S. laticeps'' with prey thumb|left|Holotype of ''S. nowaki''

'''''Sycosaurus''''' is an extinct genus of rubidgeine gorgonopsians from the Wuchiapingian (Upper Permian) Cistecephalus zone of South Africa. It was medium-sized, about 1.2&nbsp;m in length.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sycosaurus - Palaeocritti - a guide to prehistoric animals |url=http://www.palaeocritti.com/by-group/gorgonopsia/sycosaurus |website=www.palaeocritti.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314233104/http://www.palaeocritti.com/by-group/gorgonopsia/sycosaurus |archive-date=March 14, 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> It was first named by Haughton in 1924, and contains two species, ''S. laticeps'' and ''S. nowaki''.<ref>Kammerer CF. (2016) Systematics of the Rubidgeinae (Therapsida: Gorgonopsia) PeerJ 4:e1608 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1608</ref>

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Category:Gorgonopsia Category:Prehistoric therapsid genera Category:Permian synapsids of Africa Category:Fossils of Tanzania Category:Fossil taxa described in 1924 Category:Taxa named by Friedrich von Huene

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