Regisaurus

Regisaurus
Temporal range: Early Triassic
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Skull cast seen from below, Museum of Evolution of Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Synapsida
Order:
Therapsida
Suborder:
Therocephalia
Family:
Regisauridae
Genus:
Regisaurus
Species
  • R. jacobi Mendrez, 1972

Regisaurus ("Rex's lizard", named after Francis Rex Parrington) is an extinct genus of small carnivorous therocephalian. It is known from a single described species, the type species Regisaurus jacobi, from the Early Triassic Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone of South Africa, although at least one undescribed species is also known.[1]

  1. ^ C. H. Mendrez (1972). "On the skull of Regisaurus jacobi, a new genus and species of Bauriamorpha Watson and Romer 1956 (=Scaloposauria Boonstra 1953), from the Lystrosaurus-zone of South Africa". In K. A. Joysey; T. S. Kemp (eds.). Studies in Vertebrate Evolution. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd. pp. 191–212. ISBN 9780050021316.