Scutosaurus
Extinct genus of reptiles / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Scutellosaurus.
Scutosaurus ("shield lizard") is an extinct genus of pareiasaur parareptiles. Its genus name refers to large plates of armor scattered across its body. It was a large anapsid reptile that, unlike most reptiles, held its legs underneath its body to support its great weight.[2] Fossils have been found in the Sokolki Assemblage Zone of the Malokinelskaya Formation in European Russia, close to the Ural Mountains, dating to the late Permian (Lopingian) between 264 and 252 million years ago.
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Scutosaurus | |
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Skeleton of Scutosaurus at the American Museum of Natural History with upright posture | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | †Parareptilia |
Order: | †Procolophonomorpha |
Clade: | †Pareiasauria |
Genus: | †Scutosaurus Hartmann-Weinberg, 1930 |
Species: | †S. karpinskii |
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†Scutosaurus karpinskii (Amalitskii, 1922) | |
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