Definition of Pareiasaur. Meaning of Pareiasaur. Synonyms of Pareiasaur

- Pareiasaurs (meaning "ch**** lizards") are an extinct clade of large, herbivorous parareptiles. Members of the group were armoured with osteoderms which...
- Parasaurus (meaning "near lizard") is a genus of pareiasaur known from fossils collected in the Kupferschiefer in Germany (Hesse, Thuringia and Lower Saxony)...
- Scutosaurus ("shield lizard") is an extinct genus of pareiasaur parareptiles. Its genus name refers to large plates of armor scattered across its body...
- Bradysaurus was a large, early and common pareiasaur. They possessed a covering of armoured scutes, likely serving as defense against their main predators...
- by Olivier Rieppel. The theory accounted for the evolution of fossil pareiasaurs from Bradysaurus to Anthodon, but not for how the ribs could have become...
- Nycteroleteridae (nycteroleters) and the superfamily Pareiasauroidea (pareiasaurs). Pareiasauromorpha is considered to be a monophyletic node, the sister...
- Embrithosaurus was a pareiasaur from the Permian of South Africa. Embrithosaurus was 3 metres (9 ft 10 in) in length and 600 kilograms (1,300 lb) in weight...
- well as more diverse types such as the pareiasaurs. Lee 1995, 1996, 1997 argues that turtles evolved from pareiasaurs, but this view is no longer considered...
- Obirkovia is an extinct genus of pareiasaur from the late Permian Salarevo Formation of Russia. The genus contains a single species, O. gladiator, known...
- paleontologist Richard Owen initially identified the fragments as those of the pareiasaur Anthodon. After remaining untouched for years in the British Museum of...