Reptilia - Parareptilia - Procolophonidae
The specific name is derived from the Bidyara yurrga, a hole in the ground, and the Latin suffix ensis, meaning of or belonging to (a place), which is a reference to The Crater, the locality near Bluff in Queensland, Australia, where most of the specimens were collected. LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:4FA81673-0CE1-4BA3-8329-B30EF45CC548.
Full reference: T. Hamley, J. C. Cisneros, and R. Damiani. 2021. A procolophonid reptile from the Lower Triassic of Australia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 192:554-609
Belongs to Eomurruna according to T. Hamley et al. 2020
See also Poropat et al. 2023
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: QMF 18335 (Figs 3, 5A–D, 6, 14, 15, 18–22). An articulated skeleton, missing most of the right limbs and the tail. Its type locality is QML 215, Duckworth Creek, which is in an Induan terrestrial mudstone in the Arcadia Formation of Australia.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Triassic of Australia (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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