Eurosaurus

id: eurosaurus-223-4105228
title: Eurosaurus
text: Eurosaurus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsids. Its taxonomic history is intertwined with that of the therapsids Brithopus and Orthopus and the temnospondyl Melosaurus. In the 1830s and 1840s, Permian fossils were found in copper-bearing sandstones of Orenburg Governorate of the Russian Empire. Among these bones was a partial humerus, which Fischer van Waldheim described as Eurosaurus in 1841 or 1842. Fischer did not name a type species, and did not figure the type specimen, the ident
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date created: 2009-04-16T11:56:23Z
date modified: 2024-09-14T14:45:54Z
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