Owenettidae

Owenettids
Temporal range: 260.5–232 Ma Late Capitanian - Mid Carnian
"Owenetta" kitchingorum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Parareptilia
Order: Procolophonomorpha
Superfamily: Procolophonoidea
Family: Owenettidae
Broom, 1939
Genera

Owenettidae is an extinct family of procolophonian parareptiles. Fossils have been found primarily from Africa and Madagascar, with one genus present from South America. It is the sister taxon to the family Procolophonidae. Modesto and Damiani (2007) defined Owenettidae as a stem-based group including Owenetta rubidgei and all species closely related to it than to Procolophon trigoniceps.[1]

  1. ^ Sean Patrick Modesto, Ross Damiani (2007). "The procolophonoid reptile Sauropareion anoplus from the lowermost Triassic of South Africa". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 27 (2): 346–347. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[337:TPRSAF]2.0.CO;2.