''Sauravus'' is an extinct

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

nectridea Nectridea is the name of an extinct order of lepospondyl tetrapods from the Carboniferous and Permian periods, including animals such as '' Diplocaulus''. In appearance, they would have resembled modern newts or aquatic salamanders, although th ...

lepospondyl Lepospondyli is a diverse taxon of early tetrapods. With the exception of one late-surviving lepospondyl from the Late Permian of Morocco ('' Diplocaulus minumus''), lepospondyls lived from the Early Carboniferous (Mississippian) to the Early Per ...

within the

family Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its members and of society. Idea ...

Scincosauridae The Scincosauridae are an extinct family of nectridean lepospondyl amphibians. It includes the genera ''Scincosaurus ''Scincosaurus'' is an extinct genus of nectridean lepospondyl within the family Scincosauridae. History ''Scincosaurus c ...

Species

The type species of ''Sauravus, Sauravus costei,'' is known from

Blanzy Blanzy () is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. Geography The Bourbince The Bourbince () is an long river in the Saône-et-Loire ''département'', in central eastern Franc ...

, a town in the

Saône-et-Loire Saône-et-Loire (; Arpitan: ''Sona-et-Lêre'') is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in France. It is named after the rivers Saône and Loire, between which it lies, in the country's central-eastern part. Saône-et-Loire is ...

department of

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. This town and its adjacent community

Montceau-les-Mines Montceau-les-Mines () is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. It is the second-largest commune of the metropolitan Communauté urbaine Creusot Montceau, which lies southwest of ...

possess containing abundant Carboniferous fossils. These fossils are believed to have been from the Stephanian B stage of the Late Carboniferous, approximately 305 to 304 million years ago. ''Sauravus cambrayi'' is known from Les Télots, a mine near

Autun Autun () is a subprefecture of the Saône-et-Loire department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of central-eastern France. It was founded during the Principate era of the early Roman Empire by Emperor Augustus as Augustodunum to give ...

, Saône-et-Loire, France. Télots is the type locality of the Autunian stage, a period of time which is believed to correspond to part of the early Permian period. The geological formation which Télots fossils belong to is known as the Millery Formation. The specific part of the Permian which this formation belongs to was unclear for many years. In 2014, Schneider ''et al.'' suggested that the Millery Formation dated to the middle

Artinskian In the geologic timescale, the Artinskian is an age or stage of the Permian. It is a subdivision of the Cisuralian Epoch or Series. The Artinskian likely lasted between and million years ago (Ma) according to the most recent revision of th ...

age, about 290 to 286 million years ago. ''Sauravus spinosus'' is a rename of ''Scincosaurus spinosus'', a Montceau-les-Mines scincosaurid described by C. Civet in 1982. Although that author considered the species to belong to ''

Scincosaurus ''Scincosaurus'' is an extinct genus of nectridean lepospondyl within the family Scincosauridae. History ''Scincosaurus crassus'' was first described by Bohemian paleontologist Antonín Frič in volume 1875 of "''Sitzungsberichte der königl ...

'', in 1994 Jean-Michel Dutuit and D. Heyler believed considered it a species of ''Sauravus''.

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Fossil taxa described in 1906 Holospondyls {{Lepospondyli-stub

Species

See also

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