In Depth
A procolophonomorph parareptile from Russia, Rhipaeosaurus lived during the Mid Permian. Rhipaeosaurus was originally placed within its own group the Rhipaeosauridae, though later analysis seems to place Rhipaeosaurus somewhere between being a nycteroleterid to a basal pareiasaur.
Further Reading
- New Discoveries of Permian Terrestrial Vertebrates in Bashkiria and the Tchkalov Province. - Comptes Rendus (Doklady) de l’Acad�mie des Sciences de l’URSS 27(4):412-415. - I. A. Efremov - 1940. - Kotilosavry Shikhovo-Chirkovskogo Mestonakhozhdeniya [Cotylosaurs from the Shikhovo-Chirki Locality]. - Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 103(5):913-916. - P. K. Chudinov - 1955. - Anatomy of Emeroleter levis and the phylogeny of the nycteroleter parareptiles. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (1): 45–67. - Linda A. Tsuji, Johannes M�ller & Robert R. Reisz - 2012.
