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Scymnosaurus ferox
Taxonomy
Scymnosaurus ferox was named by Broom (1903). Its type specimen is SAM, a partial skull (Partial snout), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is "Near Beaufort West", which is in a Capitanian terrestrial siliciclastic in South Africa. It is the type species of Scymnosaurus.
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Scymnosaurus ferox Broom 1903
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available