Pedaeosaurus

Pedaeosaurus
Temporal range: Early Triassic
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: †Therocephalia
Family: †Ericiolacertidae
Genus: †
Colbert and Kitching, 1981
Type species
†P. parvus
Colbert & Kitching, 1981

Pedaeosaurus is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsids. Fossils have been found from the Fremouw Formation in the southern Transantarctic Mountains of Antarctica. Pedaeosaurus has traditionally been classified as a scaloposaurid and more recently as an ericiolacertid closely related to Ericiolacerta (also from the Fremouw Formation).[1]

References

  1. ^ Sidor, C.A.; Steyer, J.S.; Damiani, R. (2007). "Parotosuchus (Temnospondyli: Mastodonsauridae) from the Triassic of Antarctica". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 27 (1): 232–235. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[232:PTMFTT]2.0.CO;2.


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