Pentaedrusaurus (meaning "pentagonal [skull] lizard"[1]) is an extinct genus of procolophonid parareptile from the Early Triassic of China. It is one of the most basal members of the procolophonid subfamily Leptopleuroninae. The only known species of Pentaedrusaurus, P. ordosianus, was named in 1989 from the Heshanggou Formation.[2]

Pentaedrusaurus
Temporal range: Early Triassic
Skeletal cast mount, Paleozoological Museum of China
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Parareptilia
Order: Procolophonomorpha
Family: Procolophonidae
Subfamily: Leptopleuroninae
Genus: Pentaedrusaurus
Li, 1989
Type species
Pentaedrusaurus ordosianus
Li, 1989

References

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  1. ^ Li, J. (1989). "A new genus of Procolophonidae from Lower Triassic of Shaanxi, China" (PDF). Vertebrata PalAsiatica (in Chinese (China) and English). 27 (4): 248–267.
  2. ^ Cisneros, J. C. (2008). "Phylogenetic relationships of procolophonid parareptiles with remarks on their geological record". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 6 (3): 345–366. Bibcode:2008JSPal...6..345C. doi:10.1017/S1477201907002350. S2CID 84468714.