Bashkyroleter

Bash-kie-roe-le-ter.
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Name

Bashkyroleter.

Phonetic

Bash-kie-roe-le-ter.

Named By

Classification

Chordata,‭ ‬Parareptilia,‭ ‬Procolomorpha,‭ ‬Nycteroleteridae,‭ ‬Bashkyroleterinae.

Diet

Unavailable.

Species

‬B.‭ ‬bashkyricus

Size

Estimated about‭ ‬50‭ ‬centimetres long.

Known locations

Russian Federation,‭ ‬Bashkortostan‭ ‬-‭ ‬Belebei Formationa.

Time Period

Kungurian to Roadian of the Permian.

Fossil representation

Remains of two individuals including the Skull.

In Depth

       Bashkyroleter is a little known genus procolomorph parareptile that lived in what is now the Russian Federation during the Permian.‭ ‬Bashkyroleter‭ ‬is also the type genus of the Bashkyroleterinae,‭ ‬a sub-group of nycteroleterid procolomorphs.

Further Reading

-‭ ‬New Late Permian Nycteroleterids from Eastern Europe‭ ‬-‭ ‬Paleontological Journal,‭ ‬v.‭ ‬31,‭ ‬n.‭ ‬5,‭ ‬p.‭ ‬552-528.‭ ‬-‭ ‬M.‭ ‬F.‭ ‬Ivakhnenko‭ ‬-‭ ‬1997. -‭ C‬omptes Rendus‭ (‬Doklady‭) ‬de l’Acad�mie des Sciences de l’URSS‭ ‬27‭(‬4‭)‬:412-415‭ ‬-‭ ‬I.‭ ‬A.‭ ‬Efremov‭ ‬-‭ ‬1940.

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