In Depth As a genus Sclerosaurus is considered to be a close relative of the pareiasaurs. Further Reading - Anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of Sclerosaurus armatus (Amniota: Parareptilia) from the Buntsandstein (Triassic) of Europe. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology vol28, issue 4 - Hans-Dieter Sues & Robert R. Reisz - 2008.
In Depth Brazilosaurus is a relative of the better known Mesosaurus, and like Mesosaurus, Brazilosaurus was a semi-aquatic reptile that hunted for fish and other small aquatic animals in the water. Further Reading - On a Reptilian Skeleton from the Palaeozoic Formation of San Paulo, Brazil. - Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of … Read more
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. … Read more
In Depth Lanthanosuchus is a genus of parareptile that lived in what is now Russia during the late Permian. Further Reading - Kurze �bersicht �ber die Formen der Perm- und der Trias-Tetrapoden-Fauna der USSR. - Zentralblatt f�r Mineralogie, Geologie und Pal�ontologie, Abteilung B 1940:372-383. - I. A. Efremov - 1940. - On the subclass Batrachosauria … Read more
In Depth Abyssomedon is the first genus of nyctiphruretid procolophonomorph to be identified as living in North America. Further Reading - The first record of a nyctiphruretid parareptile from the Early Permian of North America, with a discussion of parareptilian temporal fenestration. - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 172:616-630. - M. MacDougall & R. … Read more