Provelosaurus

Provelosaurus
Temporal range: Capitanian
~260 Ma
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Provelosaurus

Lee, 1997
Type species
Pareiasaurus americanus
Araújo, 1985
Synonyms
  • Pareiasaurus americanus Araújo, 1985

Provelosaurus is an extinct Pareiasaur genus of the Late Permian found on the road between Aceguá and Bagé in the Paleorrota, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Found in the Rio do Rasto Formation, aged about 260 million years.[1] The holotype specimen found measures 1.2 metres (3 ft 11 in) in length.[2]

  1. ^ http://www.ufrgs.br/geociencias/paleo/pareiassauro2.html Museu da UFRGS
  2. ^ Juan C. Cisneros, Paula Dentzien-Dias and Heitor Francischini. 2021. "The Brazilian Pareiasaur Revisited". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution