Pentaedrusaurus
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| Pentaedrusaurus Temporal range: Early Triassic
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| File:Pentaedrusaurus IVPP.jpg | |
| Skeletal cast mount, Paleozoological Museum of China | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Subclass: | †Parareptilia |
| Order: | †Procolophonomorpha |
| Family: | †Procolophonidae |
| Subfamily: | †Leptopleuroninae |
| Genus: | †Pentaedrusaurus Li, 1989 |
| Type species | |
| †Pentaedrusaurus ordosianus Li, 1989
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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]
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