Regisaurus
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| Regisaurus Temporal range: Middle Permian–Middle Triassic | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Synapsida |
| Order: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | Therocephalia |
| Family: | regisauridae |
| Genus: | regisaurus |
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Regisaurus(king lizard) is an extinct genus of South African carnivorous theriodont. It is known from a skull and a partial postcranial skeleton from karoo. It probably hunted small invertebrates. Like urumchia, it had vomer bones, but they are not narrow at the end like in urumchia.[1]
See also
References
- ↑ C. H. Mendrez. 1972. On the skull of Regisaurus jacobi, a new genus and species of Bauriamorpha Watson and Romer 1956 (=Scaloposauria Boonstra 1953), from the Lystrosaurus-zone of South Africa.
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