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Sanchuansaurus

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Sanchuansaurus
Temporal range: Late Permian,[1] Changhsingian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Parareptilia
Order: Procolophonomorpha
Clade: Pareiasauria
Clade: Velosauria
Genus: Sanchuansaurus
Species:
S. pygmaeus
Binomial name
Sanchuansaurus pygmaeus
Gao, 1988

Sanchuansaurus is an extinct genus of pareiasaur from the late Permian Shihtienfeng Formation of China. The genus contains a single species, S. pygmaeus, known from a partial maxilla and left leg bones.[2]

References

  1. ^ Benton, Michael J. (2016-07-13). "The Chinese pareiasaurs". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 177 (4): 813–853. doi:10.1111/zoj.12389.
  2. ^ Gao, Keqin (1989-06-01). "Pareiasaurs from the Upper Permian of north China". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 26 (6): 1234–1240. doi:10.1139/e89-104. ISSN 0008-4077.