波羅蜥科（Bolosauridae）是一群已絕種的早期爬行動物，生存於二疊紀早到中期。化石在北美洲、俄羅斯、法國、德國、中國發現；生存年代最早是石炭紀最晚期（格舍爾階）或二疊紀最早期（阿舍爾階）[1][2]。
其包括的真雙足蜥屬是目前已知最古老的二足脊椎动物[3][4][5]。波羅蜥科的牙齒顯示牠們可能是植食性動物[6]。
以下波羅蜥科演化樹是根據Robert R. Reisz等人在2008年的研究[7]：
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真雙足蜥屬
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| 波羅蜥屬
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Bolosaurus grandis
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Bolosaurus striatus
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| 別里貝蜥屬
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Belebey chengi
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Belebey maximi
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Belebey vegrandis
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參考資料
- ^ Marcello Ruta, Juan C. Cisneros, Torsten Liebrect, Linda A. Tsuji and Johannes Muller. Amniotes through major biological crises: faunal turnover among Parareptiles and the end-Permian mass extinction. Palaeontology. 2011, 54 (5): 1117–1137 [2012-06-26]. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01051.x. （原始内容存档于2017-08-23）.
- ^ Jocelyn Falconnet. First evidence of a bolosaurid parareptile in France (latest Carboniferous-earliest Permian of the Autun basin) and the spatiotemporal distribution of the Bolosauridae. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France. 2012, 183 (6): 495–508 [2013-01-22]. doi:10.2113/gssgfbull.183.6.495. （原始内容存档于2016-06-01）.
- ^ Berman, DS, RR Reisz, D Scott, AC Henrici, SS Sumida & T Martens (2000), Early Permian bipedal reptile. Science 290: 969-972
- ^ Michael J. Benton Vertebrate Palaeontology, pg.115
- ^ Science mag article (non free)
- ^ REISZ, ROBERT R.; MÜLLER, JOHANNES; TSUJI, LINDA; SCOTT, DIANE. The cranial osteology of Belebey vegrandis (Parareptilia: Bolosauridae), from the Middle Permian of Russia, and its bearing on reptilian evolution. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 2007-09, 151 (1): 191–214. ISSN 1096-3642. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00312.x.
- ^ Johannes Müller, Jin-Ling Li and Robert R. Reisz. A new bolosaurid parareptile, Belebey chengi sp. nov., from the Middle Permian of China and its paleogeographic significance. Naturwissenschaften. 2008, 95 (12): 1169–1174. doi:10.1007/s00114-008-0438-0. [永久失效連結]
