Procolophoninae
Appearance
Procolophoninae Temporal range: Early-Middle Triassic,
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Procolophon pricei from the Olenekian of South Africa | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | †Parareptilia |
Order: | †Procolophonomorpha |
Family: | †Procolophonidae |
Subfamily: | †Procolophoninae Lydekker, 1890 |
Subgroups | |
Procolophoninae is an extinct subfamily of procolophonid parareptiles from the late Early Triassic to the early Middle Triassic (Olenekian and Anisian stages) of Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe and South America. Currently, the oldest-known procolophonine is Procolophon from the earliest Olenekian stage.[1]
Phylogeny
Procolophoninae was named in 1890 by Richard Lydekker. It is a stem-based taxon defined phylogenetically for the first time by Modesto et al. (2002) as "all taxa more related to Procolophon trigoniceps Owen, 1876 than to Leptopleuron lacertinum Owen, 1851".[2] The cladogram below follows Ruta et al. 2011.[1]
References
- ^ a b 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. S2CID 83693335.
- ^ 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.
Categories:
- Procolophonines
- Early Triassic reptiles
- Middle Triassic reptiles
- Late Triassic reptiles
- Prehistoric reptiles of Antarctica
- Triassic reptiles of Asia
- Triassic reptiles of Europe
- Early Triassic reptiles of Africa
- Middle Triassic reptiles of Africa
- Late Triassic reptiles of Africa
- Early Triassic reptiles of South America
- Middle Triassic reptiles of South America
- Late Triassic reptiles of South America
- Early Triassic first appearances
- Middle Triassic extinctions
- Prehistoric reptile stubs