Lemurosaurus

Lemurosaurus
Temporal range: Late Permian
Life restoration of Lemurosaurus pricei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Order: Therapsida
Suborder: Biarmosuchia
Clade: Burnetiamorpha
Genus: Lemurosaurus
Broom, 1949
Type species
L. pricei
Broom, 1949

Lemurosaurus is an extinct genus of biarmosuchian therapsid from the Late Permian of South Africa.[1][2]

Lemurosaurus (fifth) and relatives

References

  1. Broom, R. (1949). "New fossil reptile genera from the Bernard Price Collection". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 21 (1): 187–194.
  2. Sidor, C.A.; Welman, J. (2003). "A second specimen of Lemurosaurus pricei (Therapsida: Burnetiamorpha)" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 23 (3): 631–642. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2003)023[0631:ASSOLP]2.0.CO;2.
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