Lamiasaurus
Name:
Lamiasaurus
(Lamia lizard).
Phonetic: Lam-e-ah-sor-us.
Named By: Watson - 1914.
Classification: Chordata, Synapsida,
Therapsida, Dinocephalia, Titanosuchia?/Anteosauria?
Species: L. newtoni (type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: South Africa - Tapinocephalus
Assemblage Zone.
Time period: Mid Permian.
Fossil representation: Partial jaw fragment.
Lamiasaurus is a little known genus of therapsid that lived in South Africa during the Permian. So far Lamiasaurus is only known by a single jaw fragment, a fragment which some consider too indeterminate to attribute further remains to, making Lamiasaurus a dubious genus (Nomen dubium) in the eyes of many. Further to this, the jaw of Lamiasaurus may be that of a titanosuchian or anteosaur, researchers are split as to which.
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