Eohyosaurus
Name:
Eohyosaurus
(dawn pig lizard).
Phonetic: E-oh-hy-o-sor-us.
Named By: R. J. Butler, M. D. Ezcurra,
F. C. Montefeltro, A. Samathi & G. Sobral -
2015.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Archosauromorpha, Rhynchosauria.
Species: E. wolvaardti
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Uncertain due to lack of remains.
Known locations: South Africa - Burgersdorp
Formation.
Time period: Anisian of the Triassic.
Fossil representation: Partial skull and lower jaws.
Eohyosaurus is a little known genus of rhynchosaur that lived in South Africa during the Triassic. As a rhynchosaur, Eohyosaurus would have been a squat quadrupedal herbivore that ate low growing plants.
Further reading
- A new species of basal rhynchosaur (Diapsida:
Archosauromorpha) from the early Middle Triassic of South Africa,
and the early evolution of Rhynchosauria. - Zoological Journal of
the Linnean Society 174(3):571-588. - R. J. Butler, M.
D. Ezcurra, F. C. Montefeltro, A. Samathi & G.
Sobral - 2015.
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