Koiloskiosaurus

Koiloskiosaurus
Temporal range: Early Triassic
Fossil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: †Parareptilia
Order: †Procolophonomorpha
Family: †Procolophonidae
Subfamily: †Leptopleuroninae
Genus: †Koiloskiosaurus
Von Huene, 1911
Type species
†Koiloskiosaurus coburgensis
Von Huene, 1911
Model

Koiloskiosaurus is an extinct genus of procolophonid parareptile from the Early Triassic of Germany. The type and only species Koiloskiosaurus coburgensis was named by German paleontologist Friedrich von Huene in 1911 from a layer of rocks called the Buntsandstein. Koiloskiosaurus coburgensis is known from a block of three fossilized skeletons preserved together. Given that the skeletons are oriented in the same direction, the individuals most likely died in a burrow.[1] Features of the skeletons of Koiloskiosaurus and other procolophonids, such as robust limbs and solid, immovable skull bones, are also taken as evidence that they were burrowers.[2]

References

  1. ^ Botha-Brink, J.; Modesto, S. P. (2007). "A mixed-age classed 'pelycosaur' aggregation from South Africa: Earliest evidence of parental care in amniotes?". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 274 (1627): 2829–2834. doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.0803. PMC 2288685. PMID 17848370.
  2. ^ MacDougall, M. (2012). "The postcranial skeleton of the Early Triassic parareptile Sauropareion anoplus, with a discussion of possible life history". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. doi:10.4202/app.2011.0099.


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