Brazilosaurus

<i>Brazilosaurus</i>

Brazilosaurus

Extinct genus of reptiles

Not to be confused with Basilosaurus or Brasileosaurus.

Brazilosaurus is an extinct genus of mesosaur which lived during the early Permian (Artinskian stage) of what is now Brazil. It is known from specimen BSPG 1965 I 131, a single skeleton recovered from the Assistencia Member of the Irati Formation (Hanayama Farm, Tatuí, São Paulo), in the Paraná Basin. It was named by T. Shikama and H. Ozaki in 1966 and the type species is Brazilosaurus sanpauloensis.[1]

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Brazilosaurus is not to be confused with the archosaur Brasileosaurus.

References

  1. [1]
    T. Shikama and H. Ozaki (1966). "On a Reptilian Skeleton from the Palaeozoic Formation of San Paulo, Brazil". Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan. New Series. 64: 351–358.


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