Aerosaurus
| Aerosaurus Temporal range: Early Permian, 295 Ma | |
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| Life restoration of Aerosaurus wellesi | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Family: | †Varanopidae |
| Subfamily: | †Varanodontinae |
| Genus: | †Aerosaurus Romer, 1937 |
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Aerosaurus (meaning "copper lizard") is an extinct genus within Varanopidae, a family of non-mammalian synapsids. It lived during the Early Permian in North America. The name comes from Latin aes (aeris) (combining stem: aer-) “copper” and Greek sauros “lizard,” for El Cobre Canyon (from Spanish cobre “copper”) in northern New Mexico, where the type fossil was found and the site of former copper mines.
Skull of Aerosaurus
See also
References
- Romer, A. S. 1937. New genera and species of pelycosaurian reptiles. Proccedings of the New England Zoological Club XVI: 90-96.
- The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive
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