Elliotsmithia
Name:
Elliotsmithia.
Phonetic: El-le-ot-smif-e-ah.
Named By: Robert Broom - 1937.
Classification: Chordata, Synapsida,
Eupelycosauria, Varanopidae, Varanodontinae.
Species: E. longiceps
(type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: South Africa - Abrahamskraal
Formation.
Time period: Capitanian of the Permian.
Fossil representation: Partial skull.
Elliotsmithia is a little known genus of pelycosaur that was initially described from the study of a partial skull.
Further reading
- A further contribution to our knowledge of the fossil reptiles of
the Karroo. - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London
107(3):299-318. - Robert Broom - 1937.
- Anatomy and relationships of Elliotsmithia longiceps
Broom, a
small synapsid (Eupelycosauria: Varanopseidae) from the Late
Permian of South Africa. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18
(3): 602–611. - R. R. Reisz, D. W. Dilkes
& D. S. Berman - 1998.
- Anatomy and relationships of Elliotsmithia longiceps Broom, a small
synapsid (Eupelycosauria: Varanopseidae) from the Late Permian of South
Africa. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 18 (3): 602–611. - R. R.
Reisz, D. W. Dilkes & D. S. Berman - 2010.
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