Scoloparia

Scoloparia
Temporal range: Early Triassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Clade:Parareptilia
Order:Procolophonomorpha
Family:Procolophonidae
Subfamily:Leptopleuroninae
Genus:Scoloparia
Sues and Baird, 1998[1]
Type species
Scoloparia glyphanodon
Sues and Baird, 1998[1]

Scoloparia is an extinct genus of procolophonid parareptile from the Late Triassic of Canada. Fossils have been found in the Carnian- to Norian-age Wolfville Formation in Nova Scotia.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Sues, Hans-Dieter; Baird, Donald (1998). "Procolophonidae (Reptilia: Parareptilia) from the Upper Triassic Wolfville Formation of Nova Scotia, Canada". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 18 (3): 525–532. doi:10.1080/02724634.1998.10011079.
  2. Cisneros, J. C. (2008). "Phylogenetic relationships of procolophonid parareptiles with remarks on their geological record". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 6 (3): 345–366. doi:10.1017/S1477201907002350.


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