Aelurognathus
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Aelurognathus is an extinct genus of gorgonopsian therapsids from the Permian of South Africa and Zambia.
==Discovery== thumb|left|A. tigriceps restoration thumb|left|A. sp. skull at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin The type species is Aelurognathus tigriceps, originally named Scymnognathus tigriceps by South African paleontologists Robert Broom and Sydney H. Haughton in 1913, and later assigned to the new genus Aelurognathus by Haughton in 1924.
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