Emeroleter

Name: Emeroleter.
Phonetic: Em-e-roe-le-ter.
Named By: M.‭ ‬F.‭ ‬Ivakhnenko‭ ‬-‭ ‬1997.
Classification: Chordata,‭ ‬Procolophonomorpha,‭ ‬Nycteroleteridae,‭ ‬Nycteroleterinae.
Species: E.‭ ‬levis‭ (‬type‭)‬.
Diet: Uncertain/Herbivore‭?
Size: About‭ ‬30‭ ‬centimetres long.
Known locations: Russian Federation‭ ‬-‭ ‬Urpalov Formation.
Time period: Capitanian of the Permian.
Fossil representation: Almost complete articulated skeleton.

       Emeroleter is a genus of nycteroleterid procolophonomorph that lived in what is now the Russian federation towards the end of the Permian period about two hundred and sixty-five to two hundred and fifty million years ago.

Further reading
-‭ ‬New Late Permian nycteroleterids from Eastern Europe‭ ‬-‭ ‬Paleontological Journal‭ ‬31‭(‬5‭)‬:552-558‭ ‬-‭ ‬M.‭ ‬F.‭ ‬Ivakhnenko‭ ‬-‭ ‬1997.

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