Biology:Pentaedrusaurus
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Short description: Extinct genus of reptiles
| Pentaedrusaurus Temporal range: Early Triassic
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | †Parareptilia |
| Order: | †Procolophonomorpha |
| Family: | †Procolophonidae |
| Subfamily: | †Leptopleuroninae |
| Genus: | †Pentaedrusaurus Li, 1989 |
| Type species | |
| †Pentaedrusaurus ordosianus Li, 1989
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Pentaedrusaurus (meaning "pentagonal [skull] lizard"[1]) is an extinct genus of procolophonid parareptile from the Early Triassic of China . It is one of the most basal members of the procolophonid subfamily Leptopleuroninae. The only known species of Pentaedrusaurus, P. ordosianus, was named in 1989 from the Heshanggou Formation.[2]
References
- ↑ Li, J. (1989). "A new genus of Procolophonidae from Lower Triassic of Shaanxi, China" (in zh-cn,en). Vertebrata PalAsiatica 27 (4): 248–267. http://www.ivpp.cas.cn/cbw/gjzdwxb/xbwzxz/200902/W020090813372786904359.pdf.
- ↑ Cisneros, J. C. (2008). "Phylogenetic relationships of procolophonid parareptiles with remarks on their geological record". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 6 (3): 345–366. doi:10.1017/S1477201907002350. Bibcode: 2008JSPal...6..345C.
Wikidata ☰ Q7164950 entry
