Suchonosaurus is an extinct genus of procolophonid reptile from the Late Permian of Russia. It is monotypic, including the species Suchonosaurus minimus, which is itself known only from a single fragment of the upper jaw.[1] Suchonosaurus is currently considered the oldest member of the family Procolophonidae, as it is the only procolophonid known from the Permian period.[2]
Suchonosaurus Temporal range: Late Permian,
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | †Parareptilia |
Order: | †Procolophonomorpha |
Family: | †Procolophonidae |
Genus: | †Suchonosaurus Tverdokhlebova and Ivakhnenko, 1994 |
Type species | |
†Suchonosaurus minimus Tverdokhlebova and Ivakhnenko, 1994
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References
edit- ^ Säilä, L. K. (2009). "Alpha Taxonomy of the Russian Permian Procolophonoid Reptiles". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 54 (4): 599–608. doi:10.4202/app.2009.0017.
- ^ Botha-Brink, J.; Smith, R. M. H. (2012). "Palaeobiology of Triassic procolophonids, inferred from bone microstructure". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 11 (6): 419–433. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2012.03.002.