Howesia
Name: Howesia.
Phonetic: How-e-se-ah.
Named By: Robert broom - 1905.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Rhynchosauria.
Species: H. browni (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: South Africa - Burgersdorp
Formation.
Time period: Olenkian/Anisian of the Triassic.
Fossil representation: Palate with partial jaws
and post cranial skeletal remains.
Howesia is a genus of rhynchosaur that lived in South Africa during the mid Triassic.
Further reading
- Preliminary notice of some new fossil Reptiles collected by Mr.
Alfred Brown at Aliwal North, S. Africa - Records of the
Albany Museum 1 (4): 269–275. - Robert broom - 1905.
- The rhynchosaur Howesia browni from the Lower
Triassic of South
Africa - Palaeontology 38: 665– 685 - Davis M. Dilkes
- 1995.
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