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| Life restoration of Belebey vegrandis | |
Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | † Parareptilia |
| Order: | † Procolophonomorpha |
| Node: | † Procolophoniformes |
| Family: | †
Bolosauridae Cope, 1878 |
Bolosauridae is an extinct family of parareptiles known from the latest Carboniferous ( Gzhelian) or earliest Permian ( Asselian) to the early Guadalupian epoch (latest Roadian stage) of North America, China, Germany, Russia and France. [1] [2] The bolosaurids were unusual for their time period by being bipedal, the oldest known tetrapods to have been so. Their teeth suggest that they were herbivores. The bolosaurids were a rare group and died out without any known descendants. The following cladogram shows the phylogenetic position of the Bolosauridae, from Johannes Müller, Jin-Ling Li and Robert R. Reisz, 2008. [3]
| Bolosauridae | |
References
- ^ Marcello Ruta; Juan C. Cisneros; Torsten Liebrect; Linda A. Tsuji; Johannes Muller (2011). "Amniotes through major biological crises: faunal turnover among Parareptiles and the end-Permian mass extinction". Palaeontology. 54 (5): 1117–1137. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01051.x.
- ^ Jocelyn Falconnet (2012). "First evidence of a bolosaurid parareptile in France (latest Carboniferous-earliest Permian of the Autun basin) and the spatiotemporal distribution of the Bolosauridae". Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France. 183 (6): 495–508. doi: 10.2113/gssgfbull.183.6.495.
- ^ Johannes Müller; Jin-Ling Li & Robert R. Reisz (2008). "A new bolosaurid parareptile, Belebey chengi sp. nov., from the Middle Permian of China and its paleogeographic significance". Naturwissenschaften. 95 (12): 1169–1174. doi: 10.1007/s00114-008-0438-0. PMID 18726080.
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| Bolosauridae | |
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| Life restoration of Belebey vegrandis | |
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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | † Parareptilia |
| Order: | † Procolophonomorpha |
| Node: | † Procolophoniformes |
| Family: | †
Bolosauridae Cope, 1878 |
Bolosauridae is an extinct family of parareptiles known from the latest Carboniferous ( Gzhelian) or earliest Permian ( Asselian) to the early Guadalupian epoch (latest Roadian stage) of North America, China, Germany, Russia and France. [1] [2] The bolosaurids were unusual for their time period by being bipedal, the oldest known tetrapods to have been so. Their teeth suggest that they were herbivores. The bolosaurids were a rare group and died out without any known descendants. The following cladogram shows the phylogenetic position of the Bolosauridae, from Johannes Müller, Jin-Ling Li and Robert R. Reisz, 2008. [3]
| Bolosauridae | |
References
- ^ Marcello Ruta; Juan C. Cisneros; Torsten Liebrect; Linda A. Tsuji; Johannes Muller (2011). "Amniotes through major biological crises: faunal turnover among Parareptiles and the end-Permian mass extinction". Palaeontology. 54 (5): 1117–1137. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01051.x.
- ^ Jocelyn Falconnet (2012). "First evidence of a bolosaurid parareptile in France (latest Carboniferous-earliest Permian of the Autun basin) and the spatiotemporal distribution of the Bolosauridae". Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France. 183 (6): 495–508. doi: 10.2113/gssgfbull.183.6.495.
- ^ Johannes Müller; Jin-Ling Li & Robert R. Reisz (2008). "A new bolosaurid parareptile, Belebey chengi sp. nov., from the Middle Permian of China and its paleogeographic significance". Naturwissenschaften. 95 (12): 1169–1174. doi: 10.1007/s00114-008-0438-0. PMID 18726080.
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