Rebbanasaurus is an extinct sphenodontian reptile known from remains found in the Early-Middle Jurassic Kota Formation of India.[1] The type specimen is a partial jawbone which has acrodont teeth, with other known remains including fragments of the premaxilla, maxilla, and palatine. It was relatively small, with a skull estimated at 1.5–2.5 centimetres (0.59–0.98 in) long.[1] It is generally considered to be a relatively basal sphenodontian that lies outside Eusphenodontia.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Rhynchocephalia |
| Suborder: | Sphenodontia |
| Genus: | †Rebbanasaurus Evans et al., 2001[1] |
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Cladogram following Sues and Schoch, 2023:[3]
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References
edit- ^ a b c d Evans, S. E.; Prasad, G.V.R.; Manhas, B.K. (2001). "Rhynchocephalians (Diapsida: Lepidosauria) from the Jurassic Kota Formation of India". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 133: 309–334. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2001.tb00629.x.
- ^ Anantharaman, S.; DeMar, David G.; Sivakumar, R.; Dassarma, Dilip Chandra; Wilson Mantilla, Gregory P.; Wilson Mantilla, Jeffrey A. (2022-06-30). "First rhynchocephalian (Reptilia, Lepidosauria) from the Cretaceous–Paleogene of India". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 42 (1). doi:10.1080/02724634.2022.2118059. ISSN 0272-4634.
- ^ Sues, Hans-Dieter; Schoch, Rainer R. (2023-11-07). "The oldest known rhynchocephalian reptile from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) of Germany and its phylogenetic position among Lepidosauromorpha". The Anatomical Record. doi:10.1002/ar.25339. ISSN 1932-8486. PMID 37937325. S2CID 265050255.