Australothyris
Encyclopedia
Australothyris is an extinct genus of basal parareptile
known from the middle Permian of Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone
, South Africa
. It was first named by Sean P. Modesto, Diane M. Scott, and Robert R. Reisz
in 2009, and the type species is Australothyris smithi.
after Modesto et al. (2009).
Parareptilia
Parareptilia is a subclass or clade of reptiles which is variously defined as an extinct group of primitive anapsids, or a more cladistically correct alternative to Anapsida...
known from the middle Permian of Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone
Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone
The Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone is a geological stratum and is the thickest faunal zone of the Beaufort Group, in which has been found a rich variety of early therapsids. The name refers to Tapinocephalus, a genus of large herbivorous dinocephalian synapsids that lived during the Middle Permian...
, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
. It was first named by Sean P. Modesto, Diane M. Scott, and Robert R. Reisz
Robert R. Reisz
Robert Rafael Reisz is a Canadian paleontologist and specialist in the study of early amniote and tetrapod evolution.Robert Reisz was born August 27, 1947, in Oradea, Romania. He received his B.Sc. , M.Sc. and Ph.D. from McGill University as Robert L. Carroll’s first doctoral graduate...
in 2009, and the type species is Australothyris smithi.
Phylogeny
CladogramCladogram
A cladogram is a diagram used in cladistics which shows ancestral relations between organisms, to represent the evolutionary tree of life. Although traditionally such cladograms were generated largely on the basis of morphological characters, DNA and RNA sequencing data and computational...
after Modesto et al. (2009).