Phanerosaurus

Phanerosaurus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: †Diadectomorpha
Family: †Diadectidae
Genus: †Phanerosaurus
Meyer, 1860
Species
  • †P. naumanni Meyer, 1860 (type)

Phanerosaurus is an extinct genus of diadectid reptiliomorph from the Early Permian of Germany. Fossils are known from the Leukersdorf Formation near Zwickau. German paleontologist Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer named the type species P. naumanni in 1860 on the basis of several sacral and presacral vertebrae.[1] A second species, P. pugnax, was named in 1882 but placed in its own genus Stephanospondylus in 1905.[2]

  1. ^ Meyer, H. von (1860). "Phanerosaurus naumanni aus dem Sandstein des Rothliegenden in Deutschland". Palaeontographica. 7: 248–252.
  2. ^ Stappenbeck, R. (1905). "Uber Stephanospondylus n. g. und Phanerosaurus H. v. Meyer". Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft. 57: 380–437.