Diasparactus Temporal range: Early Permian,
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Skeleton of Diasparactus zenos in the Field Museum of Natural History. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Reptiliomorpha |
Order: | †Diadectomorpha |
Family: | †Diadectidae |
Genus: | †Diasparactus Case, 1910 |
Type species | |
†Diasparactus zenos |
Diasparactus is an extinct genus of diadectid reptiliomorphs, a group quite closely related to the amniotes, and paralleling some of their features. Like all advanced diadectids, Diasparactus was a herbivore, though not as large as its more well known relative Diadectes.
In Diasparactus, the spines of the dorsal vertebrae are higher than in other genera in the family.[1]