Suchonosaurus
Suchonosaurus is an extinct genus of procolophonid reptile from the Late Permian of Russia. It is monotypic, including the species Suchonosaurus minimus, which is itself known only from a single fragment of the upper jaw. Suchonosaurus is currently considered the oldest member of the family Procolophonidae, as it is the only procolophonid known from the Permian period.
| Suchonosaurus Temporal range: Late Permian, | |
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| Right maxilla | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | †Parareptilia |
| Order: | †Procolophonomorpha |
| Family: | †Procolophonidae |
| Genus: | †Suchonosaurus Tverdokhlebova and Ivakhnenko, 1994 |
| Type species | |
| †Suchonosaurus minimus Tverdokhlebova and Ivakhnenko, 1994 | |
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