- Late Permian.
Pareiasaurs were the
largest reptiles of the Permian,
reaching sizes equivalent to
those of
contemporary therapsids.
Pareiasaurs became extinct...
-
small conical studs.
Pareiasaurs feature a
short stout body, and a
short tail.
Scutosaurus has 19
presacral vertebrae.
Pareiasaurs, as well as many other...
-
controversy regarding the
evolutionary origin of turtles,
because in both
pareiasaurs and non-mammalian
therapsids the
acromion is
located at the
dorsal tip...
-
Nycteroleteridae (nycteroleters) and the
superfamily Pareiasauroidea (
pareiasaurs).
Pareiasauromorpha is
considered to be a
monophyletic node, the sister...
- (nycteroleterids and others), and the
first large herbivorous reptiles (the
pareiasaurs). The only
parareptiles to
survive into the Tri****ic
period were the...
-
specimens of
pareiasaurs from the
Upper Permian Sunjiagou Formation of Liulin,
Shanxi and
their implications for the
taxonomy of
Chinese pareiasaurs" (PDF)...
- most
recent common ancestor of
lanthanosuchids and "pareiasauroids" (
pareiasaurs + Sclerosaurus), and all its descendants.
Unlike Ankyramorpha, which...
- by
Olivier Rieppel. The
theory accounted for the
evolution of
fossil pareiasaurs from
Bradysaurus to Anthodon, but not for how the ribs
could have become...
- the
dinosauriform Saltopus elginensis, the
dicynodont Gordonia, and the
pareiasaur Elginia.
There are also many
footprints and tail-drags ****ociated with...
- new lifeforms. In particular, the
extinction of the
large herbivorous pareiasaurs and
carnivorous gorgonopsians left
those ecological niches empty. Some...
