Pumiliopareia
Name:
Pumiliopareia.
Phonetic: Pu-mil-e-o-pah-ry-ah.
Named By: Broom and Robinson - 1948.
Synonyms: Nanoparia pricei, Pareiasaurus
pricei.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Procolophonomorpha, Pareiasauridae, Pumiliopareiasauria.
Species: P. pricei (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Total length about 50 centimetres long,
skull 12 centimetres long.
Known locations: South Africa.
Time period: Permian.
Fossil representation: Almost complete individual
including osteoderm armour.
Pumiliopareia was a fairly small parieasaur though one that was not completely defenceless. The skin of Pumiliopareia was the housing for a multitude of osteoderm armour, though bony plates that floated within the skin that could stop the teeth and claws of most predators.
Further reading
- A taxonomic revision of
pareiasaurian reptiles: implications for Permian terrestrial
paleoecology. - Modern Geology 21:231-298. - M. S. Y. Lee - 1997.
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