| Barasaurus Temporal range: Late Permian - Early Triassic,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | †Parareptilia |
| Order: | †Procolophonomorpha |
| Family: | †Owenettidae |
| Genus: | †Barasaurus Piveteau, 1955 |
| Type species | |
| †Barasaurus besairiei Piveteau, 1955
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Barasaurus is an extinct genus of owenettid procolophonoid parareptile known from the Late Permian and Early Triassic of Madagascar. It contains a single species, Barasaurus besairiei.[1][2]
- ^ Piveteau, Jean (1955). "Existence d'un Reptile du groupe des Procolophonidés à Madagascar - Conséquences stratigraphiques et paléontologiques". Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des Sciences. 241: 1325–1327.
- ^ Ketchum, H. F.; Barrett, P. M. (2004). "New reptile material from the Lower Triassic of Madagascar: Implications for the Permian–Triassic extinction event". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 41 (1): 1. Bibcode:2004CaJES..41....1K. doi:10.1139/E03-084.