Owenettidae
Extinct family of reptiles / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Owenettidae is an extinct family of procolophonian parareptiles. Fossils have been found primarily from Africa and Madagascar, with one genus present from South America. It is the sister taxon to the family Procolophonidae. Modesto and Damiani (2007) defined Owenettidae as a stem-based group including Owenetta rubidgei and all species closely related to it than to Procolophon trigoniceps.[1]
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Owenettids | |
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"Owenetta" kitchingorum | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | †Parareptilia |
Order: | †Procolophonomorpha |
Superfamily: | †Procolophonoidea |
Family: | †Owenettidae Broom, 1939 |
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