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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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Bradysaurus is a
genus of large,
primitive and
widespread pareiasaur. They
possessed a
covering of
armoured scutes,
likely serving as
defense against their...
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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...
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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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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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Nanoparia is an
extinct genus of
pareiasaur that
lived in the Permian. It was
about 60 cm (23.6 in) in length, and
weighed around 8 to 10
kilograms (17...
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paleontologist Richard Owen
initially identified the
fragments as
those of the
pareiasaur Anthodon.
After remaining untouched for
years in the
British Museum of...
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Nycteroleteridae (nycteroleters) and the
superfamily Pareiasauroidea (
pareiasaurs).
Pareiasauromorpha is
considered to be a
monophyletic node, the sister...
