Mesenosaurus
Name:
Mesenosaurus.
Phonetic: Me-sen-o-sore-us.
Named By: Efremov - 1938.
Classification: Chordata, Synapsida,
Eupelycosauria, Varanopidae, Mycterosaurinae.
Species: M. romeri (type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Holotype roughly about 37-38 centimetres
long.
Known locations: Russia - Krasnoshchel'
Formation.
Time period: Wordian of the Permian.
Fossil representation: Almost complete.
Mesenosaurus is a genus of varanopid pelycosaur that lived in Russia during the Permian.
Further reading
- Some new Permian reptiles of the USSR. -Academy of Sciences
URSS, C. R., 19: 121-126. - Efremov - 1938.
- The skull of Mesenosaurus romeri, a small
varanopseid
(Synapsida: Eupelycosauria) from the Upper Permian of the Mezen
River basin, northern Russia. - Annals of the Carnegie Museum
70: 113-132. - R. R. Reisz & D. S. Berman -
2001.
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