Bradysaurus
Extinct genus of reptiles / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bradysaurus was a large, early and common pareiasaur. They possessed a covering of armoured scutes, likely serving as defense against their main predators, the gorgonopsians.
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Bradysaurus | |
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Skeleton in the Field Museum | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | †Parareptilia |
Order: | †Procolophonomorpha |
Clade: | †Pareiasauria |
Family: | †Pareiasauridae |
Subfamily: | †Bradysaurinae von Huene, 1948 |
Genus: | †Bradysaurus Watson, 1914 |
Type species | |
†Bradysaurus baini Seeley, 1892 | |
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Fossils of Bradysaurus are known from the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone (Capitanian age) of the South African Karoo. Along with the similarly large dinocephalia, the bradysaurs constituted the herbivorous megafauna of the late Middle Permian Period.