''Pentaedrusaurus'' (meaning "pentagonal
kulllizard"
) is an
extinct
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genus of
procolophonid parareptile from the
Early Triassic of
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
. It is one of the most
basal
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Science
* Basal (anatomy), an anatomical term of location for features associated with the base of an organism or structure
* Basal (medicine), a minimal level that is nec ...
members of the procolophonid subfamily
Leptopleuroninae. The only known species of ''Pentaedrusaurus'', ''P. ordosianus'', was named in 1989 from the Heshanggou Formation.
References
Leptopleuronines
Triassic parareptiles
Early Triassic reptiles of Asia
Prehistoric reptile genera
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