Pentaedrusaurus
Pentaedrusaurus (meaning "pentagonal [skull] lizard"[1]) is an extinct genus of procolophonid parareptile from the Early Triassic of China. It is one of the most basal members of the procolophonid subfamily Leptopleuroninae. The only known species of Pentaedrusaurus, P. ordosianus, was named in 1989 from the Heshanggou Formation.[2]
| Pentaedrusaurus Temporal range: Early Triassic | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | †Parareptilia |
| Order: | †Procolophonomorpha |
| Family: | †Procolophonidae |
| Subfamily: | †Leptopleuroninae |
| Genus: | †Pentaedrusaurus Li, 1989 |
| Type species | |
| †Pentaedrusaurus ordosianus Li, 1989 | |
References
- Li, J. (1989). "A new genus of Procolophonidae from Lower Triassic of Shaanxi, China" (PDF). Vertebrata PalAsiatica (in Chinese (China) and English). 27 (4): 248–267.
- Cisneros, J. C. (2008). "Phylogenetic relationships of procolophonid parareptiles with remarks on their geological record". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 6 (3): 345–366. doi:10.1017/S1477201907002350. S2CID 84468714.
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