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Claudiosaurus, the Glossary

Claudiosaurus (claudus is Latin for 'lameness' and saurus means 'lizard') is an extinct genus of diapsid reptiles from the Late Permian Sakamena Formation of the Morondava Basin, Madagascar.^[1]

39 relations: Acerosodontosaurus, Anatomical terms of location, Barasaurus, Coelurosauravus, Diapsid, Dicynodontia, Early Triassic, Equisetales, Extinction, Gastralia, Genus, Glossopteridales, Glossopteris, Hovasaurus, Lake Tanganyika, Lepidopteris, Lopingian, Madagascar, Morondava Basin, Oudenodon, Pachyostosis, Palaeonisciformes, Phalanx bone, Plesiosaur, Procolophonidae, Redpath Museum, Reptile, Rhinesuchidae, Rift valley, Robert L. Carroll, Sauropterygia, Shoulder girdle, Sternum, Temnospondyli, Thadeosaurus, Therapsida, Theriodontia, Weigeltisauridae, Younginiformes.
Diapsids
Fossils of Madagascar
Lopingian genera
Lopingian life
Lopingian reptiles of Africa
Permian Madagascar

Acerosodontosaurus

Acerosodontosaurus is an extinct genus of neodiapsid reptiles that lived during the Late Permian of Madagascar. Claudiosaurus and Acerosodontosaurus are diapsids, Lopingian reptiles of Africa and prehistoric reptile genera.

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Anatomical terms of location

Standard anatomical terms of location are used to unambiguously describe the anatomy of animals, including humans.

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Barasaurus

Barasaurus is an extinct genus of owenettid procolophonoid parareptile known from the Late Permian and Early Triassic of Madagascar. Claudiosaurus and Barasaurus are Lopingian reptiles of Africa and prehistoric reptile genera.

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Coelurosauravus

Coelurosauravus (meaning "hollow lizard grandfather") is an extinct genus of gliding reptile, known from the Late Permian of Madagascar. Claudiosaurus and Coelurosauravus are fossils of Madagascar, Lopingian genera, Lopingian reptiles of Africa and prehistoric reptile genera.

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Diapsid

Diapsids ("two arches") are a clade of sauropsids, distinguished from more primitive eureptiles by the presence of two holes, known as temporal fenestrae, in each side of their skulls. Claudiosaurus and Diapsid are diapsids.

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Dicynodontia

Dicynodontia is an extinct clade of anomodonts, an extinct type of non-mammalian therapsid.

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Early Triassic

The Early Triassic is the first of three epochs of the Triassic Period of the geologic timescale.

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Equisetales

Equisetales is an order of subclass Equisetidae with only one living family, Equisetaceae, containing the genus Equisetum (horsetails), as well as a variety of extinct groups, including the tree-like Calamitaceae.

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Extinction

Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member.

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Gastralia

Gastralia (gastralium) are dermal bones found in the ventral body wall of modern crocodilians and tuatara, and many prehistoric tetrapods.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Glossopteridales

Glossopteridales is an extinct order of seed plants, known from the Permian of Gondwana.

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Glossopteris

Glossopteris (etymology: from Ancient Greek γλῶσσα (glôssa, " tongue ") + πτερίς (pterís, " fern ")) is the largest and best-known genus of the extinct Permian order of seed plants known as Glossopteridales (also known as Arberiales, Ottokariales, or Dictyopteridiales). Claudiosaurus and Glossopteris are fossils of Madagascar.

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Hovasaurus

Hovasaurus is an extinct genus of basal diapsid reptile. Claudiosaurus and Hovasaurus are diapsids, fossils of Madagascar, Lopingian reptiles of Africa, Permian Madagascar and prehistoric reptile genera.

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Lake Tanganyika

Lake Tanganyika (Ikiyaga ca Tanganyika) is an African Great Lake.

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Lepidopteris

Lepidopteris ("scaly fern") is a form genus for leaves of Peltaspermaceae, an extinct family of seed plants, which lived from around 260 to 190 million years ago, from the Late Permian to Early Jurassic.

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Lopingian

The Lopingian is the uppermost series/last epoch of the Permian.

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Madagascar

Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar and the Fourth Republic of Madagascar, is an island country comprising the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands.

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Morondava Basin

Morondava Basin is one of the major sedimentary basins of Madagascar.

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Oudenodon

Oudenodon is an extinct genus of dicynodont.

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Pachyostosis

Pachyostosis is a non-pathological condition in vertebrate animals in which the bones experience a thickening, generally caused by extra layers of lamellar bone.

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Palaeonisciformes

The Palaeonisciformes, commonly known as "palaeoniscoids" (also spelled "paleoniscoid", or alternatively "paleoniscids") are an extinct grouping of primitive ray-finned fish (Actinopterygii), spanning from the Silurian/Devonian to the Cretaceous.

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Phalanx bone

The phalanges (phalanx) are digital bones in the hands and feet of most vertebrates.

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Plesiosaur

The Plesiosauria (Greek: πλησίος, plesios, meaning "near to" and ''sauros'', meaning "lizard") or plesiosaurs are an order or clade of extinct Mesozoic marine reptiles, belonging to the Sauropterygia.

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Procolophonidae

Procolophonidae is an extinct family of small, lizard-like parareptiles known from the Late Permian to Late Triassic that were distributed across Pangaea, having been reported from Europe, North America, China, South Africa, South America, Antarctica and Australia.

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Redpath Museum

The Redpath Museum is a museum of natural history belonging to McGill University and located on the university's campus on Sherbrooke Street West in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Reptile

Reptiles, as commonly defined, are a group of tetrapods with usually an ectothermic ('cold-blooded') metabolism and amniotic development.

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Rhinesuchidae

Rhinesuchidae is a family of tetrapods that lived primarily in the Permian period.

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Rift valley

A rift valley is a linear shaped lowland between several highlands or mountain ranges produced by the action of a geologic rift.

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Robert L. Carroll

Robert "Bob" Lynn Carroll (May 5, 1938 – April 7, 2020) was an American–Canadian vertebrate paleontologist who specialised in Paleozoic and Mesozoic amphibians and reptiles.

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Sauropterygia

Sauropterygia ("lizard flippers") is an extinct taxon of diverse, aquatic reptiles that developed from terrestrial ancestors soon after the end-Permian extinction and flourished during the Triassic before all except for the Plesiosauria became extinct at the end of that period.

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Shoulder girdle

The shoulder girdle or pectoral girdle is the set of bones in the appendicular skeleton which connects to the arm on each side.

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Sternum

The sternum (sternums or sterna) or breastbone is a long flat bone located in the central part of the chest.

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Temnospondyli

Temnospondyli (from Greek τέμνειν, temnein 'to cut' and σπόνδυλος, spondylos 'vertebra') or temnospondyls is a diverse ancient order of small to giant tetrapods—often considered primitive amphibians—that flourished worldwide during the Carboniferous, Permian and Triassic periods, with fossils being found on every continent.

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Thadeosaurus

Thadeosaurus is an extinct genus of diapsid reptile belonging to the family Younginidae. Claudiosaurus and Thadeosaurus are diapsids, fossil taxa described in 1981, fossils of Madagascar, Lopingian reptiles of Africa, Permian Madagascar and prehistoric reptile genera.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudiosaurus

Also known as Claudiosaurid, Claudiosauridae, Claudiosaurus germaini.

Claudiosaurus, the Glossary

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See also

Diapsids

Fossils of Madagascar

Lopingian genera

Lopingian life

Lopingian reptiles of Africa

Permian Madagascar

References