Beesiiwo Temporal range:
Carnian, | |
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Holotype of Beesiiwo | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauromorpha |
Order: | †Rhynchosauria |
Family: | †Rhynchosauridae |
Subfamily: | †Hyperodapedontinae |
Genus: | †Beesiiwo Fitch et al., 2023 |
Type species | |
†Beesiiwo cooowuse Fitch et al., 2023
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Beesiiwo (IPA: [bæsiwɒʔ]) (meaning "big lizard") is a genus of hyperodapedontine rhynchosaur from the Late Triassic Popo Agie Formation in Western Wyoming. The type and only species is B. cooowuse, known from four specimens consisting of left and right maxilla fragments, and a left dentary fragment.[1]