Smilodonterpeton
Appearance
Smilodonterpeton Temporal range: Late Triassic
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | †Parareptilia |
Order: | †Procolophonomorpha |
Family: | †Procolophonidae |
Genus: | †Smilodonterpeton Skinner, Whiteside & Benton, 2020 |
Type species | |
†Smilodonterpeton ruthinensis Skinner, Whiteside & Benton, 2020
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Smilodonterpeton is an extinct genus of procolophonid from the Late Triassic of the United Kingdom. It contains a single species, Smilodonterpeton ruthinensis.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Skinner, Matthew; Whiteside, David I.; Benton, Michael J. (2020-10-01). "Late Triassic island dwarfs? Terrestrial tetrapods of the Ruthin fissure (South Wales, UK) including a new genus of procolophonid". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 131 (5): 535–561. doi:10.1016/j.pgeola.2020.04.005. ISSN 0016-7878. S2CID 221878712.