Sphenosaurus
Extinct genus of reptiles
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Sphenosaurus is a poorly known genus of procolophonid, a type of prehistoric reptile from the Late Permian Buntsanstein of Germany.[1] Originally assigned the name Palaeosaurus sternbergii, by German paleontologist Leopold Joseph Fitzinger in 1840, the generic name was already preoccupied by not one but two other reptiles assigned the name Palaeosaurus.[2][3] In 1847, Hermann von Meyer recognized the original 1833 and 1836 usages of Palaeosaurus[4] and moved P. sternbergii to a new genus, Sphenosaurus.[5]
| Sphenosaurus Temporal range: Late Permian, | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Family: | †Procolophonidae |
| Genus: | †Sphenosaurus von Meyer, 1847 |
| Species: | †S. sternbergii |
| Binomial name | |
| †Sphenosaurus sternbergii von Meyer, 1847 | |
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