Elginia
Elginia is an extinct genus of pareiasaurid known from the Late Permian of Scotland and China. It was named for the area around Elgin in Scotland, which has yielded many fossils referred to as the Elgin Reptiles.
| Elginia Temporal range: Changhsingian, | |
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| The holotype skull of Elginia mirabilis as illustrated by Newton (1893), seen from the side. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | †Parareptilia |
| Order: | †Procolophonomorpha |
| Clade: | †Pareiasauria |
| Family: | †Pareiasauridae |
| Genus: | †Elginia Newton, 1893 |
| Type species | |
| †Elginia mirabilis Newton, 1893 | |
| Other species | |
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