Clevosaurus

Klee-vo-sor-us.
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John Stewart

Paleoecologist

John Stewart is a distinguished paleoecologist whose work has significantly advanced our understanding of prehistoric ecosystems. With over two decades dedicated to unearthing fossils across Asia and Africa

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Name

Clevosaurus.

Phonetic

Klee-vo-sor-us.

Named By

Classification

Chordata, Reptilia, Diapsida, Lepidosauria, Sphenodontia, Sphenodontidae, Clevosaurus.

Diet

Insesctivore?

Species

C. hudsoni

Size

Small, but eact meaurements depend upon the species.

Known locations

Belgium. Brazil. Canada. China. England. Luxembourg. South Africa. USA. Wales.

Time Period

Late Triassic to early Jurassic.

Fossil representation

Numerus individuals.

In Depth

       Clevosaurus is a genus of small lepidosaurian lizard that as a genus had a near global dsitribution during the Triassic and early Jurassic.

Further Reading

– A new Triassic rhynchocephalian from Gloucestershire. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Zoology, Botany, and Geology 4:591-594. – W. E. Swinton – 1939. – The Osteology and Relationships of Clevosaurus (Reptilia: Sphenodontida). – Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 321(1204):125-178. – N. C. Fraser – 1988. – A new sphenodontian from the early Mesozoic of England and North America: implications for correlating early Mesozoic continental deposits, by N. C. Fraser. – In, The Nonmarine Triassic. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 3:135-139, : S. G. Lucas & M. Morales (eds.) – 1993. – Late Triassic-Early Jurassic sphenodontians from China and the phylogeny of the Sphenodontida. In N. C. Fraser & H.-D. Sues (eds.), In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic Tetrapods. – Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 38-69. – X.-C. Wu – 1994. – A new sphenodontian (Lepidosauria: Rhynchocephalia) from the McCoy Brook Formation (Lower Jurassic) of Nova Scotia, Canada. – Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14(3):327-340. – H.-D. Sues, N. H. Shubin & P. E. Olsen – 1994. – A new species of the sphenodontian reptile Clevosaurus from the Lower Jurassic of South Wales. – Palaeontology 48 (4): 817–831. – Laura K. S�il� – 2005. – A new species of Clevosaurus (Lepidosauria: Rhynchocephalia) from the Upper Triassic of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. – Palaeontology 49:917-923. – J. F. Bonaparte & H.-D. Sues – 2006. – A distinctive Late Triassic microvertebrate fissure fauna and a new species of Clevosaurus (Lepidosauria: Rhynchocephalia) from Woodleaze Quarry, Gloucestershire, UK. – Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 126:402-416. – C. G. Klein, D. I. Whiteside, V. S. Lucas, P. A. Viegas & M. J. Benton – 2015. – The terrestrial fauna of the Late Triassic Pant-y-ffynnon Quarry fissures, South Wales, UK and a new species of Clevosaurus (Lepidosauria: Rhynchocephalia). – Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association. 129 (2): 99–119. – Emily Keeble, David I. Whiteside & Michael J. Benton – 2018. – Taxonomic reassessment of Clevosaurus latidens Fraser, 1993 (Lepidosauria, Rhynchocephalia) and rhynchocephalian phylogeny based on parsimony and Bayesian inference. – Journal of Paleontology. 92 (4): 734–742. – Jorge A. Herrera-Flores, Thomas L. Stubbs, Armin Elsler & Michael J. Benton – 2018. – Biomechanical properties of the jaws of two species of Clevosaurus and a reanalysis of rhynchocephalian dentary morphospace. – Palaeontology. 63 (6): 919–939. – Sofia A. V. Chambi-Trowell, David I. Whiteside, Michael J. Benton & Emily J. Rayfield (Stephan Lautenschlager [ed].) – 2020.

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