Broomia
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| Broomia Temporal range: Middle Permian, | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | †Parareptilia |
| Order: | †Millerosauria |
| Family: | †Millerettidae |
| Genus: | †Broomia Watson, 1914 |
| Type species | |
| †Broomia perplexa Watson, 1914[1] | |
Broomia is an extinct genus of millerettid parareptile from the Middle Permian (Capitanian stage) of South Africa.[2] It was originally described by D. M. S. Watson.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Watson, D.M.S. (1914). "Broomia perplexa, gen. et sp. nov. a fossil reptile from South Africa". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1914: 995–1010.
- ^ Marcello Ruta; Juan C. Cisneros; Torsten Liebrect; Linda A. Tsuji; Johannes Muller (2011). "Amniotes through major biological crises: faunal turnover among Parareptiles and the end-Permian mass extinction". Palaeontology. 54 (5): 1117–1137. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01051.x.
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