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.