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Extinct genus of therapsids
A reconstruction of L. chiweta
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]
References
^
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 .