Smilesaurus

Smilesaurus; Temporal range: Late Permian
	Holotype skull
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Synapsida
Clade:	Therapsida
Clade:	†Gorgonopsia
Family:	†Gorgonopsidae
Genus:	†Smilesaurus; Broom, 1948
Type species
	†Smilesaurus ferox; Broom, 1948
Synonyms
	Genus level Pardocephalus Broom, 1948; Species level Pardocephalus wallacei Broom, 1948; Smilesaurus maccabei Broom, 1948; Aelurognathus ferox Gebauer, 2007;

Smilesaurus is an extinct genus of gorgonopsian known from South Africa. It lived during the Late Permian. It contains the single species S. ferox.^[1]

^ Kammerer, Christian F. (2016). "Systematics of the Rubidgeinae (Therapsida: Gorgonopsia)". PeerJ. 4: e1608. doi:10.7717/peerj.1608. PMC 4730894. PMID 26823998.

[Kammerer2016-1] Kammerer, Christian F. (2016). "Systematics of the Rubidgeinae (Therapsida: Gorgonopsia)". PeerJ. 4: e1608. doi:10.7717/peerj.1608. PMC 4730894. PMID 26823998.

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