Lanthanosuchus
Name:
Lanthanosuchus.
Phonetic: Lan-tho-soo-kus.
Named By: I. A. Efremov - 1946.
Classification: Chordata, Parareptilia,
Lanthanosuchoidea, Lanthanosuchidae.
Species: L. watsoni (type).
Diet: Insectivore.
Size: Skull about 20 centimetres long, total
body size roughly estimated to be about 75 centimetres long.
Known locations: Russia, Tatarstan.
Time period: Late Permian.
Fossil representation: Skull.
Lanthanosuchus is a genus of parareptile that lived in what is now Russia during the late Permian.
Further reading
- Kurze �bersicht �ber die Formen der Perm- und der
Trias-Tetrapoden-Fauna der USSR. - Zentralblatt f�r Mineralogie,
Geologie und Pal�ontologie, Abteilung B 1940:372-383. - I.
A. Efremov - 1940.
- On the subclass Batrachosauria - an intermediary group between
amphians and reptiles. - USSR Academy of Sciences Bulletin,
Biology series 1946:615-638. - I. A. Efremov - 1940 -
1946.
- Lanthanosuchids from the Permian of the East European platform.
- Paleontological Journal 1980: 80-90. - M. F.
Ivakhenko - 1980.
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