Pintosaurus

Pintosaurus; Temporal range: Late Triassic; ~235–202 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	†Parareptilia
Order:	†Procolophonomorpha
Family:	†Procolophonidae
Genus:	†Pintosaurus; Piñeiro, Rojas & Ubilla, 2004
Species
	†P. magnidentis Piñeiro et al., 2004 (type);

Pintosaurus is an extinct genus of basal procolophonid^[1] parareptile from Late Triassic deposits of northeastern Uruguay. It is known from the holotype FC-DPV 1181, a partial skull. It was collected from the Buena Vista Formation of the Paraná Basin, in Colonia Orozco, Cerro Largo Department. It was first named by Graciela Piñeiro, Alejandra Rojas and Martín Ubilla in 2004 and the type species is Pintosaurus magnidentis. The specific name means "large dentary" in Greek.^[2]

Phylogeny[]

Cladogram after Cisneros, 2008:^[1]

Coletta

Pintosaurus

Sauropareion

	"Eumetabolodon" dongshengensis

	Theledectes

^ ^a ^b Juan Carlos Cisneros (2008). "Phylogenetic relationships of procolophonid parareptiles with remarks on their geological record". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 6 (3): 345–366. doi:10.1017/S1477201907002350. S2CID 84468714.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
^ Graciela Piñeiro, Alejandra Rojas and Martín Ubilla (2004). "A new procolophonoid (Reptilia, Parareptilia) from the Upper Permian of Uruguay". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 24 (4): 814–821. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2004)024[0814:ANPRPF]2.0.CO;2.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)

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