Eunotosaurus africanus

Eunotosaurus africanus was a small turtle-like reptile from the Middle Permian of South Africa. It is known from incomplete skeletons characterized by plate-like ribs.

Name

Eunotosaurus africanus

Authority

Seeley, 1892 sensu Modesto, 2000

Size

Length: 15 cm

Remains

Partial skeleton

Age and Distribution

Horizon: upper half of the Tapinocephalus zone and throughout the Pristerognathus Assemblage Zone; Middle Permian (Capitanian).

Type locality: Ecca-Beaufort contact in Northern Cape Province, South Africa

Classification

Anapsida Eunotosauridae

Further Reading

Watson, 1914 D.M.S. Watson, Eunotosaurus africanus Seeley and the ancestors of the Chelonia, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 11 (1914), pp. 1011–1020.

Cox C.B. 1969. The problematic Permian reptile Eunotosaurus. Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) 18, 167–196.

Keyser A.W. and Gow C.E. 1981. First complete skull of the Permian reptile Eunotosaurus africanus Seeley. S. Afr. J. Sci. 77, 417–420.

Gow, C.E. 1997. A reassessment of Eunotosaurus africanus Seeley (Amniota: Parareptilia). Palaeontologia Africana, 34: 33–42.

Gow, C.E., and de Klerk, B. 1997. First record of Eunotosaurus (Amniota: Parareptilia) from the Eastern Cape. Palaeontologia Africana, 34: 27–31.

Modesto, S.P. 2000. Eunotosaurus africanus and the Gondwanan ancestry of anapsid reptiles. Palaeontologia Africana, 36: 15–20.