Lanthanolania
| Lanthanolania Temporal range: Wordian, 266 Ma | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Neodiapsida |
| Genus: | †Lanthanolania Reisz & Modesto, 2003 |
| Type species | |
| †Lanthanolania ivakhnenkoi Reisz & Modesto, 2003 | |
Lanthanolania (meaning "forgotten butcher") is an extinct genus of diapsid from Middle Permian[1] (Wordian stage, or upermost Kazanian in Eastern Europe) deposits of Arkhangel'sk Province, Russia. It is known from the holotype and only specimen PIN 162/56, a nearly complete skull from the Glyadnaya Shchelya locality, Mezen river in Mesen District. It was first named by Sean P. Modesto and Robert R. Reisz in 2003 and the type species is Lanthanolania ivakhnenkoi.[2]
Phylogeny
Cladogram after Reisz, Modesto & Scott, 2011:[1]
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References
- 1 2 Robert R. Reisz, Sean P. Modesto and Diane M. Scott (2011). "A new Early Permian reptile and its significance in early diapsid evolution". Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 278 (1725): 3731–3737. doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.0439. PMC 3203498
. PMID 21525061. - ↑ Sean P. Modesto and Robert R. Reisz (2003). "An enigmatic new diapsid reptile from the Upper Permian of Eastern Europe". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 22 (4): 851–855. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2002)022[0851:AENDRF]2.0.CO;2.
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