Burnetia is an extinct genus of biarmosuchian therapsids in the family Burnetiidae, from the Late Permian of South Africa.

Burnetia is known so far from a single holotype skull lacking the lower jaws described by South African paleontologist Robert Broom in 1923.

Stutural lines are further distorted by the unusual shape of the skull roof, including many bosses and protuberances.

Unlike proburnetia's median nasal bridge being long, narrow and raised, Burnetia's is splindle-shaped.

[2] The vomer is held by the surrounding vomerine processes that form the choanae's middle border.

[4] The concave occiput is tilted up, which is shown when it is aligned vertically, the snout faces downward.

[2] Broom found Burnetia mirabilis in the Dicynodon Assemblage Zone near Graaff-Reinet, South Africa.

[1] However, Broom made observations based on the skull when it was covered by matrix and no underlying bone was visible.

[2] Lieuwe Boonstra removed this matrix and found that Burnetia and Gorgonopsians differed mainly by the thickening of dermal bones, bosses and their basisphenoids.

[2] Phylogenetic analysis done by Ashley Kruger suggests that a likely origin for burnetiamorphs could be southern Africa.