Name:
Nycteroleter.
Phonetic: Nyk-ter-o-lee-ter.
Named By: I. A. Efremov - 1938.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Anapsida,
Procolomorpha, Nycteroleteridae, Nycteroleterinae.
Species: N. ineptus (type).
Diet: Unavailable.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: Russia.
Time period: Wordian of the Permian.
Fossil representation: At least three skulls.
Nycteroleter is the type genus of the Nycteroleteridae, and is a procolomorph anapsid that lived in Russia during the Permian.
Further reading
Some New Permian Reptiles of the USSR. Comptes Rendus (Doklady)
de l'Acad�mie des Sciences de l'URSS 19(9):771-776. - I.
A. Efremov - 1938.
- Anatomy of Emeroleter levis and the Phylogeny
of the Nycteroleter
Parareptiles. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32 (1):
45–67. - Linda A. Tsuji, Johannes M�ller & Robert
R.
Reisz - 2012.
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