Broomia
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.