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Pareiasaurs (meaning "ch**** lizards") are an
extinct clade of large,
herbivorous parareptiles.
Members of the
group were
armoured with
osteoderms which...
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Parasaurus (meaning "near lizard") is a
genus of
pareiasaur known from
fossils collected in the
Kupferschiefer in
Germany (Hesse,
Thuringia and
Lower Saxony)...
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Scutosaurus ("shield lizard") is an
extinct genus of
pareiasaur parareptiles. Its
genus name
refers to
large plates of
armor scattered across its body...
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Sanchuansaurus is an
extinct genus of
pareiasaur from the late
Permian Sunjiagou Formation of China. The
genus contains a
single species, S. pygmaeus,...
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gorgonopsians and
herbivorous beaked dicynodonts,
alongside large herbivorous pareiasaur parareptiles. The Archosauromorpha, the
group of
reptiles that
would give...
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Anthodon (meaning "flower tooth") is an
extinct genus of
pareiasaur parareptile from the
Permian period of
South Africa and Tanzania. In 1845, amateur...
- new lifeforms. In particular, the
extinction of the
large herbivorous pareiasaurs and
carnivorous gorgonopsians left
those ecological niches empty. Some...
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Permian period, 299 to 251
million years ago,
equalled only by some
large pareiasaurs at the end of the Permian. Most
lineages of pelycosaur-grade synapsids...
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Bradysaurus was a large,
early and
common pareiasaur. They
possessed a
covering of
armoured scutes,
likely serving as
defense against their main predators...
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controversy regarding the
evolutionary origin of turtles,
because in both
pareiasaurs and non-mammalian
therapsids the
acromion is
located at the
dorsal tip...
