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Myosaurus
Temporal range: Early Triassic
Restoration of Myosaurus gracilis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Suborder: Anomodontia
Clade: Dicynodontia
Family: Myosauridae
Kitching, 1968
Genus: Myosaurus
Haughton, 1917
Type species
M. gracilis
Haughton, 1917

Myosaurus is an extinct genus of dicynodont found primarily in Antarctica and South Africa.

History

The Family Myosauridae is known only from fossilized skull specimens. The family is distinguished from other families in the infraorder Dicynodontia by the larger breadth of the skull samples in the intertemporal region. Myosaurus used to be a member of the family Endothiodontidae but was placed in its own family after further investigation.

See also

References

  • "Myosaurus gracilis, an Anomodont Reptile from the Lower Triassic of Antarctica and South Africa" - by W. R. Hammer and J. W. Cosgriff; Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 55, No. 2 (Mar., 1981), pp. 410–424; Published by: SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology; Article Stable URL: www.jstor.org/stable/1304227