Aenigmastropheus
Extinct genus of reptiles / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Aenigmastropheus is an extinct genus of early archosauromorph reptiles known from the middle Late Permian Usili Formation of Songea District, southern Tanzania. It contains a single species, Aenigmastropheus parringtoni, known solely from UMZC T836, a partial postcranial skeleton of a mature individual. It was collected in 1933, and first described in 1956, as a "problematic reptile" due to its unique morphology. Therefore, a binomial name was erected for this specimen in 2014. Aenigmastropheus was probably fully terrestrial.[1]
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Cervical vertebrae | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauromorpha |
Genus: | †Aenigmastropheus Ezcurra et al., 2014 |
Type species | |
†Aenigmastropheus parringtoni Ezcurra et al., 2014 |
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