| Paliguana Temporal range: Earliest Triassic 252 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ | |
|---|---|
| |
| Holotype skull | |
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Lepidosauromorpha |
| Family: | †Paliguanidae |
| Genus: | †Paliguana Broom 1903 |
| Type species | |
| †Paliguana whitei Broom 1903 | |
Paliguana is an extinct genus of lizard-like lepidosauromorph reptile. It is known from a single somewhat poorly preserved skull around 3 centimetres (1.2 in) in length from the earliest Triassic Katberg Formation (Beaufort Group) in the upper Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone of South Africa. It is currently the earliest known lepidosauromorph.
Cladogram after Ford, et al. 2021:
| Lepidosauromorpha |
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
References
- Ford, David P.; Evans, Susan E.; Choiniere, Jonah N.; Fernandez, Vincent; Benson, Roger B. J. (2021-08-25). "A reassessment of the enigmatic diapsid Paliguana whitei and the early history of Lepidosauromorpha". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 288 (1957): 20211084. doi:10.1098/rspb.2021.1084. PMC 8385343. PMID 34428965.
- Bringing Fossils To Life: An Introduction To Paleobiology by Donald R. Prothero
| Lepidosauromorpha | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||
| Taxon identifiers | |
|---|---|
| Paliguana | |
 | This article about a Triassic reptile is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it. |