| Lemurosaurus Temporal range: Late Permian,
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| Cast of the holotype skull in the Burke Museum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | †Biarmosuchia |
| Clade: | †Burnetiamorpha |
| Genus: | †Lemurosaurus Broom, 1949 |
| Type species | |
| †Lemurosaurus pricei Broom, 1949
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Lemurosaurus is a genus of extinct biarmosuchian therapsids from the Late Permian of South Africa.[1] The generic epithet Lemursaurus is a mix of Latin, lemures “ghosts, spirits”, and Greek, sauros, “lizard”. Lemurosaurus is easily identifiable by its prominent eye crests, and large eyes. The name Lemurosaurus pricei was coined by paleontologist Robert Broom in 1949, based on a single small crushed skull, measured at approximately 86 millimeters in length, found on the Dorsfontein farm in Graaff-Reinet.[2] To date, only two skulls of the Lemurosaurus have been discovered, so body size is unknown. The second larger, more intact, skull was found in 1974 by a team from the National Museum, Bloemfontein.[1]
- ^ a b Sidor, C.A.; Welman, J. (2003). "A second specimen of Lemurosaurus pricei (Therapsida: Burnetiamorpha)" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 23 (3): 631–642. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2003)023[0631:ASSOLP]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 56317227.
- ^ Broom R. New Fossil Reptile Genera from the Bernard Price Collectionhttp://bionames.org/references/842bad4f2b347a534d3e14434670a86b