Reptilia - Parareptilia - Procolophonidae
Full reference: S. P. Modesto, H.-D. Sues, and R. Damiani. 2001. A new Triassic procolophonoid reptile and its implications for procolophonoid survivorship during the Permo-Triassic extinction event. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 268:2047-2052
Belongs to Sauropareion according to M. J. MacDougall et al. 2013
See also MacDougall and Modesto 2011, Modesto and Damiani 2007 and Modesto et al. 2001
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: SAM PK-11192, a partial skeleton (cranium, partial mandible, partial cervical vertebral series, a disarticulated dorsal neural arch, pectoral girdle elements, and left humerus). Its type locality is Barendskraal Farm, which is in an Induan/Olenekian terrestrial mudstone in the Balfour Formation of South Africa.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Triassic of South Africa (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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