Name:
Anomoiodon.
Phonetic: An-o-moy-o-don.
Named By: Friedrich von Huene - 1939.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Parareptilia, Procolophonidae, Procolophoninae.
Species: A. liliensterni
(type), A. krejcii.
Diet: Insectivore?
Size: About 10 centimetres long.
Known locations: Germany, Thuringia - Solling
Formation.
Time period: Olenkian of the Triassic.
Fossil representation: Skull and partial post
cranial remains from two individuals.
Anomoiodon was a tiny little parareptile that lived in Germany in the early Triassic. Another genus of parareptile named Kapes was once considered to be a synonym of Anomoiodon, but rediscovery of fossils and new study have now re-confirmed them to be separate genera. There are however considered to be very closely related to one another.
Further reading
- The Osteology and Affinities of Anomoiodon liliensterni,
a
Procolophonid Reptile from the Lower Triassic Buntsandstein of German,
Laura K. S�ila - 2008.
- Amniotes through major biological crises: faunal turnover among
Parareptiles and the end-Permian mass extinction, Marcello Ruta,
Juan C. Cisneros, Torsten Liebrect, Linda A. Tsuji &
Johannes Muller - 2011.
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