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The Early Triassic ‘lizard’ Colubrifer Campi : A Reassessment
Author(s) -
Evans Susan E.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
palaeontology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.69
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1475-4983
pISSN - 0031-0239
DOI - 10.1111/1475-4983.00214
Subject(s) - squamata , holotype , lizard , paleontology , genus , skull , geology , skeleton (computer programming) , geography , zoology , biology , anatomy
Colubrifer campi Carroll, 1982 is a small reptile represented by a single skeleton from the Lower Triassic of South Africa. Carroll attributed the genus to the Squamata, proposing that it was a derived lizard with reduced limbs. Re‐examination of the specimen permits a rather different interpretation of the skull. The holotype of Colubrifer is the skeleton of a small primitive procolophonian, almost certainly referable to the established South African genus Owenetta .