Parasaurus
Extinct genus of reptiles / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Parasaurolophus.
Parasaurus (meaning "near lizard") is a genus of pareiasaur known from fossils collected in the Kupferschiefer in Germany (Hesse, Thuringia and Lower Saxony), dating to the Late Permian (Wuchiapingian). The type species, Parasaurus geinitzi, described by Hermann von Meyer in 1857,[1] was the first pareiasaur ever described.[2] The seven known specimens were redescribed in 2008.[2]
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | †Parareptilia |
Order: | †Procolophonomorpha |
Clade: | †Pareiasauria |
Family: | †Pareiasauridae |
Genus: | †Parasaurus von Meyer, 1857 |
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†Parasaurus geinitzi von Meyer, 1857 |
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