Changhsingian life

Pareiasaurus (from , "cheek" and , "lizard") is an extinct genus of pareiasauromorph reptile from the Permian period. It was a typical member of its family, the pareiasaurids, which take their name from this genus.

genus of reptiles (fossil)

Milleretta is an extinct genus of millerettid stem-group reptile from the Late Permian of what is now South Africa. Fossils have been found in the Balfour Formation. Its only known species is Milleretta rubidgei, although several other species of millerettid have been synonymized with this genus. Milleretta and its close relatives are unique among Paleozoic stem reptiles in that it secondarily closed an upper and lower temporal fenestra during ontogeny.

Millerosaurus is an extinct genus of millerettid reptiles from the Late Permian (Changhsingian stage) of South Africa. Jenkins et al. (2025) recognized both species of Millerosaurus as juvenile individuals of Milleretta, since the observed anatomical differences can be explained by changes seen through ontogeny in the latter. Under this reinterpretation, Millerosaurus would be a junior synonym of Milleretta.

Tangasaurus is an extinct genus of aquatic basal tangasaurid neodiapsid known from the Late Permian period (late Changhsingian stage) of Tanga, northeastern Tanzania. It contains a single species, Tangasaurus mennelli.

Nigerpeton (Niger, for the country, and herpeton (Greek), meaning crawler) is an extinct genus of crocodile-like temnospondyls from the late Permian (Changhsingian) period. These temnospondyls lived in modern-day Niger, which was once part of central Pangaea, about 250 million years ago. Nigerpeton is a member of the Cochleosauridae family, a group of edopoid temnospondyl amphibians known from the late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) and early Permian (Cisuralian).

Owenetta is an extinct genus of owenettid procolophonian. Fossils have been found from the Beaufort Group in the Karoo Basin of South Africa. Although most procolophonians lived during the Triassic, Owenetta existed during the Wuchiapingian and Changhsingian stages of the Late Permian. It is the type genus of the family Owenettidae, and can be distinguished from other related taxa in that the posterior portion of the supratemporal bears a lateral notch and that the pineal foramen is surrounded by a depressed parietal surface on the skull table.

left|thumb|D. leoniceps skull, Natural History Museum, Berlin thumb|left|Restoration of D. leoniceps Daptocephalus is an extinct genus of dicynodont synapsid, which was found in Late Permian strata, in a biozone known precisely for the presence of fossils of this dicynodont, the Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone, in the Karoo Basin in South Africa. An additional species, D. huenei, is known from the Usili Formation in Tanzania and was formerly assigned to the genus Dicynodon before a study in 2019 recognised that the type specimen belonged to Daptocephalus. ==See also== List of therapsids

Nanoparia is an extinct genus of pareiasaur known from the Permian of South Africa.