Pintosaurus
| Pintosaurus Temporal range: Late Triassic
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | †Parareptilia |
| Order: | †Procolophonomorpha |
| Family: | †Procolophonidae |
| Genus: | †Pintosaurus Piñeiro, Rojas & Ubilla, 2004 |
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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]
References
- ^ a b "Phylogenetic relationships of procolophonid parareptiles with remarks on their geological record". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 6 (3): 345–366. 2008. doi:10.1017/S1477201907002350. S2CID 84468714.
{{cite journal}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter|authors=(help) - ^ "A new procolophonoid (Reptilia, Parareptilia) from the Upper Permian of Uruguay". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 24 (4): 814–821. 2004. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2004)024[0814:ANPRPF]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 86685688.
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