Neoprocolophon
Extinct genus of reptiles
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Neoprocolophon is an extinct genus of procolophonid parareptile, known from the single species Neoprocolophon asiaticus from the Middle Triassic of China. It was named by Chinese paleontologist Yang Zhongjian (better known as C. C. Young) in 1957 from the Ermaying Formation.[1]
| Neoprocolophon Temporal range: Early Triassic | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Family: | †Procolophonidae |
| Subfamily: | †Leptopleuroninae |
| Genus: | †Neoprocolophon Young, 1957 |
| Type species | |
| †Neoprocolophon asiaticus Young, 1957 | |
