Rhipaeosaurus
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Rhipaeosaurus is an extinct genus of nycteroleterid parareptile known from an articulated skeleton from the mid Middle Permian of European Russia. It contained a single species, Rhipaeosaurus tricuspidens.[1] A bayesian analysis suggests that it is more closely related to pareiasaurs than to the other nycteroleterids, due to skull and tooth features. For this reason, "Nycteroleteridae" may be a grade rather than a clade, unless redefined to exclude Rhipaeosaurus.[2]
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Rhipaeosaurus | |
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Life restoration (with highly speculative skull) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | †Parareptilia |
Order: | †Procolophonomorpha |
Family: | †Nycteroleteridae |
Genus: | †Rhipaeosaurus Efremov, 1940 |
Type species | |
†Rhipaeosaurus tricuspidens Efremov, 1940 |
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