Eumetabolodon

Eumetabolodon
Temporal range: Early-?Middle Triassic, 251–244 Ma
Cast of holotype, Paleozoological Museum of China
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Parareptilia
Order: Procolophonomorpha
Family: Procolophonidae
Subfamily: Procolophoninae
Genus: Eumetabolodon
Li, 1983
Species
  • E. bathycephalus Li, 1983 (type)

Eumetabolodon is an extinct genus of procolophonine procolophonid parareptile from early and middle Triassic (Induan to earliest Anisian stages) deposits of Nei Mongol, northern China. Two species of Eumetabolodon were named by J. L. Li in 1983 and the type species is Eumetabolodon bathycephalus.[1]

  1. ^ J. L. Li (1983). "Tooth replacement in a new genus of procolophonid from the Early Triassic of China". Palaeontology. 26 (3): 567–583.