- this
reason it is
often seen as
intermediate between more
primitive nycteroleterids and more
advanced pareiasaurids such as Scutosaurus.
Subfamily † Nycteroleterinae...
- the
other reptiles with
anapsid skulls,
including the millerettids,
nycteroleterids, and pareiasaurs,
became extinct in the Late
Permian period by the...
-
these animals are parareptiles. As such, they are
closely related to
nycteroleterids.
Pareiasaurs filled the
large herbivore niche (or guild) that had been...
-
nycteroleterids formed a
monophyletic or
polyphyletic group, as
Rhipaeosaurus seems to be more
similar to
pareisaurids than to
other nycteroleterids....
- such as Eudibamus), the
first reptiles with
advanced hearing systems (
nycteroleterids and others), and the
first large herbivorous reptiles (the pareiasaurs)...
-
suggests that it is more
closely related to
pareiasaurs than to the
other nycteroleterids, due to
skull and
tooth features. For this reason, "Nycteroleteridae"...
- "anapsids"),
including lanthanosuchoids, millerettids, bolosaurids, some
nycteroleterids, some
procolophonoids and at
least some
mesosaurs made it more ambiguous...
- Parareptilia,
including lanthanosuchoids, millerettids, bolosaurids, some
nycteroleterids, some
procolophonoids and at
least some
mesosaurs made it more ambiguous...
- to
include both
nyctiphruretids and
nycteroleterids. However,
recent cladistic analyses suggest that
nycteroleterids are more
closely related to the Pareiasauria...
- Fröbisch (2024), who also
study the
phylogenetic relationships of
nycteroleterids. A
study on the
chronological sequence of late
Permian localities in...