Pedaeosaurus

Pedaeosaurus is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsids. Fossils have been found from the Fremouw Formation in the southern Transantarctic Mountains of Antarctica. Pedaeosaurus has traditionally been classified as a scaloposaurid and more recently as an ericiolacertid closely related to Ericiolacerta (also from the Fremouw Formation).[1]

Pedaeosaurus
Temporal range: Early Triassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Synapsida
Order:
Therapsida
Suborder:
Therocephalia
Family:
?Ericiolacertidae
Genus:
Pedaeosaurus

Colbert and Kitching, 1981
Species
  • †P. parvus Colbert and Kitching, 1981 (type)

References
  1. Sidor, C.A.; Steyer, J.S.; Damiani, R. (2007). "Parotosuchus (Temnospondyli: Mastodonsauridae) from the Triassic of Antarctica". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 27 (1): 232–235. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[232:PTMFTT]2.0.CO;2.


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