Hazhenia

Hazhenia is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsids from the Early Triassic of China, of which Hazhenia concava is the only species. Hazhenia was named in 1981 from the in the Ordos Desert of Inner Mongolia. It lived during the Olenekian Age of the Early Triassic, about 247 million years ago. Hazhenia belongs to a group of therocephalians called Baurioidea and possesses many mammal-like features such as cusped teeth and a secondary palate, both of which evolved independently in baurioids. Within Baurioidea it is most closely related to the genus Ordosiodon, which is also known from Inner Mongolia but comes from the slightly younger Ermaying Formation. Both genera were once placed in the family Ordosiidae, but as the name is preoccupied by a family of Cambrian trilobites, it is no lo

Hazhenia

Hazhenia is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsids from the Early Triassic of China, of which Hazhenia concava is the only species. Hazhenia was named in 1981 from the in the Ordos Desert of Inner Mongolia. It lived during the Olenekian Age of the Early Triassic, about 247 million years ago. Hazhenia belongs to a group of therocephalians called Baurioidea and possesses many mammal-like features such as cusped teeth and a secondary palate, both of which evolved independently in baurioids. Within Baurioidea it is most closely related to the genus Ordosiodon, which is also known from Inner Mongolia but comes from the slightly younger Ermaying Formation. Both genera were once placed in the family Ordosiidae, but as the name is preoccupied by a family of Cambrian trilobites, it is no lo