Pedaeosaurus

Pedaeosaurus
Temporal range: Early Triassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Synapsida
Order:
Therapsida
Suborder:
Therocephalia
Family:
?Ericiolacertidae
Genus:
Pedaeosaurus

Colbert and Kitching, 1981
Species
  • †P. parvus Colbert and Kitching, 1981 (type)

Pedaeosaurus is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsids. Fossils have been found from the Fremouw Formation in the southern Transantarctic Mountains of Antarctica. Pedaeosaurus has traditionally been classified as a scaloposaurid and more recently as an ericiolacertid closely related to Ericiolacerta (also from the Fremouw Formation).[1]

References

  1. ^ Sidor, C.A.; Steyer, J.S.; Damiani, R. (2007). "Parotosuchus (Temnospondyli: Mastodonsauridae) from the Triassic of Antarctica". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 27 (1): 232–235. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[232:PTMFTT]2.0.CO;2.


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