Nshimbodon, a new cynodont therapsid from Zambia

[Halichoeres]

Meet Nshimbodon muchingaensis (Bemba "nshimba" = "genet," "odontos" = Gr. "tooth", "muchingaensis" = from Muchinga), a cynodont from the Permian of Zambia. The holotype is the vast majority of a skull and a little bit of the pectoral girdle (forelimb/shoulder). It lived shortly before the P-T extinction in a region where the biodiversity dynamics of the extinction are intensely studied.

The skull and a life reconstruction by Crystal Shin (appropriately genet-inspired):



Paper (paywall, but you know what to do about that): https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2020.1827413

[Shonisaurus]

We would need a nshimbodon muchingaensis as a figure in the toy dinosaur market. There are very few cynodonts like that in figure.