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Prolacerta broomi Parrington 1935
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Description
Prolacerta broomi Parrington, 1935 (fig. 7E)
AGE: Induan, Early Triassic (Rubidge, 2005).
OCCURRENCE: Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone (Beaufort Group) of South Africa.
HOLOTYPE: UMZC 2003.40, partial skull and mandible.
REFERRED MATERIAL: BP/1/471, complete skull; BP/1/2675, nearly complete skull with postcrania; BP/1/2676, nearly complete skeleton; UCMP 37151, skull; AMNH 9502, postcranial skeleton.
REMARKS: See Nesbitt et al., 2009a.
KEY REFERENCES: Parrington, 1935; Camp, 1945; Gow, 1975; Evans, 1988; Colbert, 1987; Gower and Sennikov, 1996; Dilkes, 1998; Modesto and Sues, 2004.
Notes
Published as part of Nesbitt, Sterling J., 2011, The Early Evolution Of Archosaurs: Relationships And The Origin Of Major Clades, pp. 1-292 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (352) on page 15, DOI: 10.1206/352.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5405335
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- Journal article: 10.1206/352.1 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5405335 (URL)
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Prolacertidae
- Genus
- Prolacerta
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Prolacertiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Parrington
- Species
- broomi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Prolacerta broomi Parrington, 1935 sec. Nesbitt, 2011
References
- Parrington, F. R. 1935. On Prolacerta broomi, gen. et sp. n. and the origin of lizards. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 16: 197 - 205.
- Rubidge, B. S. 2005. Re-uniting lost continents - fossil reptiles from the ancient Karoo and their wanderlust. South African Journal of Geology 108: 135 - 172.
- Nesbitt, S. J., M. R. Stocker, B. Small, and A. Downs. 2009 a. The osteology and relationships of Vancleavea campi (Reptilia: Archosauriformes). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157: 814 - 864.
- Camp, C. L. 1945. Prolacerta and the protorosaurian reptiles. Part 1. American Journal of Science 243: 17 - 32.
- Gow, C. E. 1975. The morphology and relationships of Youngina capensis Broom and Prolacerta broomi Parrington. Palaeontologia Africana 18: 89 - 131.
- Evans, S. E. 1988. The braincase of Prolacerta broomi (Reptilia, Triassic). Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaeontologie Abhandlungen 173: 181 - 200.
- Colbert, E. H. 1987. The Triassic reptile Prolacerta in Antarctica. American Museum Novitates 2882: 1 - 19.
- Gower, D. J., and A. G. Sennikov. 1996. Braincase morphology in early archosaurian reptiles. Palaeontology 39: 883 - 906.
- Dilkes, D. W. 1998. The Early Triassic rhynchosaur Mesosuchus browni and the interrelationships of basal archosauromorph reptiles. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences 353: 501 - 541.
- Modesto, S. P., and H. - D. Sues. 2004. The skull of the Early Triassic archosauromorph Prolacerta broomi and its phylogenetic significance. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 140: 335 - 351.