Brazilosaurus
Brazilosaurus Temporal range: Early Permian,
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Fossil | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | †Parareptilia |
Order: | †Mesosauria |
Family: | †Mesosauridae |
Genus: | †Brazilosaurus Shikama & Ozaki, 1966 |
Type species | |
†Brazilosaurus sanpauloensis Shikama & Ozaki, 1966
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Brazilosaurus is an extinct genus of mesosaur which lived during the early Permian (Artinskian stage) of what is now Brazil. It is known from a skeleton recovered from the Assistencia Member of the Irati Formation (, Tatuí, São Paulo), in the Paraná Basin. It was named by T. Shikama and H. Ozaki in 1966 and the type species is Brazilosaurus sanpauloensis.[1]
Brazilosaurus is not to be confused with the archosaur Brasileosaurus.
References[]
- ^ T. Shikama and H. Ozaki (1966). "On a Reptilian Skeleton from the Palaeozoic Formation of San Paulo, Brazil". Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan. New Series. 64: 351–358.
Categories:
- Parareptiles
- Prehistoric reptile genera
- Prehistoric marine reptiles
- Permian reptiles of South America
- Permian Brazil
- Fossils of Brazil
- Paraná Basin
- Fossil taxa described in 1966
- Permian reptile stubs