Rhipaeosaurus
Name:
Rhipaeosaurus (Rhipaeos lizard).
Phonetic: Rhi-pay-e-o-sore-us.
Named By: I. A. Efremov - 1940.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Parareptilia, Procolophonomorpha.
Species: R. tricuspidens
(type).
Diet: Unavailable.
Size: Uncertain, but at least one meter long.
Known locations: Russia- Ural Mountains.
Time period: Kungurian/Roadian of the Permian.
Fossil representation: Almost complete and
articulated skeleton.
A procolophonomorph parareptile from Russia, Rhipaeosaurus lived during the Mid Permian. Rhipaeosaurus was originally placed within its own group the Rhipaeosauridae, though later analysis seems to place Rhipaeosaurus somewhere between being a nycteroleterid to a basal pareiasaur.
Further reading
- New Discoveries of Permian Terrestrial Vertebrates in Bashkiria and
the Tchkalov Province. - Comptes Rendus (Doklady) de l'Académie
des Sciences de l'URSS 27(4):412-415. - I. A. Efremov
- 1940.
- Kotilosavry Shikhovo-Chirkovskogo Mestonakhozhdeniya [Cotylosaurs
from the Shikhovo-Chirki Locality]. - Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR
103(5):913-916. - P. K. Chudinov - 1955.
- Anatomy of Emeroleter levis and the phylogeny
of the nycteroleter
parareptiles. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (1):
45–67. - Linda A. Tsuji, Johannes Müller & Robert
R. Reisz - 2012.
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