Euparkeria
Sign in to saveEuparkeria (; meaning "Parker's good animal", named in honor of W. K. Parker) is an extinct genus of archosauriform reptile from the Triassic of South Africa. Euparkeria is close to the ancestry of Archosauria, the reptile group that includes crocodilians, pterosaurs, and dinosaurs (including birds).
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Within Vinony's link graph, Euparkeria is referenced by 172 other articles, and connects out to archosaur, Avemetatarsalia and Archosauromorpha.
It sits within the topics Euparkeriidae, Fossils of South Africa and Fossil taxa described in 1913.
Its subject is documented across 20 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Euparkeriidae
- Image
- Foot skeletons of permotriassic archosauromorphs PLoS ONE 10(6) e0128449 fig 4.PNG
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- Commons category
- Euparkeria
- taxon name
- Euparkeria
- taxon rank
- genus
- time period
- Early Triassic
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History and naming
- Classification
- Ancestor of archosaurs
- Removal from Archosauria
- Euparkeriids
- Palaeobiology
- Locomotion
- Nocturnality
- Palaeoecology
- References
Euparkeria (; meaning "Parker's good animal", named in honor of W. K. Parker) is an extinct genus of archosauriform reptile from the Triassic of South Africa. Euparkeria is close to the ancestry of Archosauria, the reptile group that includes crocodilians, pterosaurs, and dinosaurs (including birds).
Fossils of Euparkeria, including nearly complete skeletons, have been recovered from the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone (CAZ, also known as the Burgersdorp Formation), which hosts the oldest advanced archosauriforms in the fossil-rich Karoo Basin. Tentative dating schemes place the CAZ around the latest Early Triassic (late Olenekian stage) or earliest Middle Triassic (early Anisian stage), approximately 247 million years old.
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