Ruthenosaurus
Sign in to saveRuthenosaurus is an extinct genus of caseid synapsids that lived in what is now Southern France during the Early Permian (late Artinskian) about 285 million years ago. It is known from the holotype MNHN.F.MCL-1 an articulated partial postcranial skeleton. It was collected by D. Sigogneau-Russell and D. Russell in 1970 in the upper part of the M2 Member, Grès Rouge Group, in the Rodez Basin, near the village of Valady (département of Aveyron), in Occitanie Region. It was first named by Robert R. Reisz, Hillary C. Maddin, Jörg Fröbisch and Jocelyn Falconnet in 2011, and the type species is Ruthe
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It is catalogued under topics including Caseidae, Fossils of France and Fossil taxa described in 2011.
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Ruthenosaurus is an extinct genus of caseid synapsids that lived in what is now Southern France during the Early Permian (late Artinskian) about 285 million years ago. It is known from the holotype MNHN.F.MCL-1 an articulated partial postcranial skeleton. It was collected by D. Sigogneau-Russell and D. Russell in 1970 in the upper part of the M2 Member, Grès Rouge Group, in the Rodez Basin, near the village of Valady (département of Aveyron), in Occitanie Region. It was first named by Robert R. Reisz, Hillary C. Maddin, Jörg Fröbisch and Jocelyn Falconnet in 2011, and the type species is Ruthenosaurus russellorum.
==Etymology== Ruthenosaurus is named after a Gallic regional tribe, Ruthenie (in Medieval Latin), that have also given Ruthénois, the name of the inhabitants of the town of Rodez; and the Ancient Greek sauros, "lizard". The type species is named in honour of Drs Denise Sigogneau-Russell and Donald E. Russell, the original collectors of the holotype.
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