Jonkeria

Jonkeria
Temporal range: Capitanian,
Jonkeria truculenta skull, Amer. Mus. No. 5608 (holotype of J. ingens)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Suborder: †Dinocephalia
Family: †Titanosuchidae
Genus: †Jonkeria
Van Hoepen, 1916
Species:
†J. truculenta
Binomial name
†Jonkeria truculenta
Van Hoepen, 1916
Synonyms
Genus synonymy
  • Dinophoneus Broom, 1923
  • Dinosphageus Broom, 1929
  • Phoneosuchus Broom, 1929
Species synonymy
  • Dinophoneus ingens Broom, 1923
  • Dinosphageus haughtoni Broom, 1929
  • Jonkeria crassus Broom, 1929
  • Jonkeria pugnax Broom, 1929
  • Jonkeria vanderblyi Broom, 1929
  • Phoneosuchus angusticeps Broom, 1929
  • Jonkeria ingens Boonstra, 1935
  • Jonkeria angusticeps Boonstra, 1953
  • Jonkeria haughtoni Boonstra, 1953
  • Jonkeria parva Boonstra, 1955
  • Jonkeria rossouwi Boonstra, 1955
  • Jonkeria boonstraii Janensch, 1959

Jonkeria is an extinct genus of dinocephalians. Jonkeria was a large and omnivorous animal, from the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone, Lower Beaufort Group, of the South African Karoo.

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