Lemurosaurus
Name:
Lemurosaurus
(Lemur lizard).
Phonetic: Le-mu-roe-sore-us.
Named By: Robert Broom - 1949.
Classification: Chordata, Synapsida,
Therapsida, Biarmosuchia, Burnetiamorpha.
Species: L. pricei (type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Skull 10 centimetres long, total body
size unknown.
Known locations: South Africa - Middleton
Formation, Balfour Formation.
Time period: Wuchiapingian of the Permian.
Fossil representation: Skull remains of two
individuals.
Lemurosaurus is a genus of biarmosuchian therapsid that lived in South Africa during the late Cretaceous. Although Lemurosaurus lived during the late Permian, the genus is still noted as being primitive in form.
Further reading
- New fossil reptile genera from the Bernard Price Collection. -
Annals of the Transvaal Museum 21 (1): 187–194. - Robert
Broom - 1949.
- A second specimen of Lemurosaurus pricei
(Therapsida:
Burnetiamorpha). - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23
(3): 631–642. - C. A. Sidor & J. Welman -
2003.
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