Elginia

Elginia
Temporal range: Changhsingian, 254–252 Ma
The holotype skull of Elginia mirabilis as illustrated by Newton (1893), seen from the side.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Parareptilia
Order: Procolophonomorpha
Clade: Pareiasauria
Family: Pareiasauridae
Genus: Elginia
Newton, 1893
Type species
Elginia mirabilis
Newton, 1893
Other species
  • E. wuyongae, Liu & Bever, 2018

Elginia is an extinct genus of pareiasaurid known from the Late Permian of Scotland and China.[1][2][3] It was named for the area around Elgin in Scotland, which has yielded many fossils referred to as the Elgin Reptiles.

  1. ^ Newton, E.T. (1893). "VII. On some new reptiles from Elgin Sandstone". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B. 184: 431–503.
  2. ^ Lee, M.S.Y. (1997). "A taxonomic revision of pareiasaurian reptiles: implications for Permian terrestrial palaeoecology". Modern Geology. 21: 231–298.
  3. ^ Liu, Jun; Bever, Gabriel S. (May 2018). Angielczyk, Kenneth (ed.). "The tetrapod fauna of the upper Permian Naobaogou Formation of China: a new species of Elginia (Parareptilia, Pareiasauria)". Papers in Palaeontology. 4 (2): 197–209. doi:10.1002/spp2.1105.