Galesaurus
Sign in to saveGalesaurus (from the Greek roots for 'weasel' and 'lizard') is an extinct genus of carnivorous cynodont therapsid that lived between the Induan and the Olenekian stages of the Early Triassic in what is now South Africa. It was incorrectly classified as a dinosaur by Sir Richard Owen in 1859.
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- Parent taxon
- Galesauridae
- Image
- Galesaurus block.png
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- taxon name
- Galesaurus
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Galesaurus
- start time
- 252170000-
- end time
- 247200000-
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Description
- Skull
- Dentition
- Discovery and naming
- Classification
- Paleobiology
- Locomotion
- Comparison of ''Galesaurus'' to ''Thrinaxodon''
- See also
- References
Galesaurus (from the Greek roots for 'weasel' and 'lizard') is an extinct genus of carnivorous cynodont therapsid that lived between the Induan and the Olenekian stages of the Early Triassic in what is now South Africa. It was incorrectly classified as a dinosaur by Sir Richard Owen in 1859.
Notably, Galesaurus was mentioned in the first issue of Nature in 1869, where T. H. Huxley erroneously expressed confidence that it would eventually be shown to be a dinosaur.
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