Mesosaurus
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Mesosaurus is an extinct genus of aquatic reptile from the late Early Permian of southern Africa and South America. It is the only member of the family Mesosauridae and order Mesosauria. Two other gen
Mesosaurus tenuidens 1
Dual fossil in Louisiana
From Brazil, at the Natural History Museum, Vienna
Life restoration of Mesosaurus
Parareptilia
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Parareptilia is an extinct subclass of basal sauropsids. Traditionally considered the sister taxon to Eureptilia, its validity as a monophyletic clade has been disputed by modern cladistic analyses.
Mesosaurus
…southern Pangaea during the late Early Permian, likely feeding on small prey such as pygocephalomorph crustaceans. Mesosaurs have often been considered parareptiles, though the validity of "Parareptilia" has recently been brought into question. Recent studies regardless place mesosaurs as basal, non-diapsid reptiles…
Skeleton of Kapes bentoni, a procolophonid from the Middle Triassic of England
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Milleretta BW
Hovasaurus BW