Neosaurus

Neosaurus ('New Lizard') is an extinct genus of pelycosaur-grade synapsids from the Late Carboniferous-Early Permian of the Jura region of France. It is known only from a partial maxilla or upper jaw bone and an associated impression of the bone. The teardrop shape of the teeth in the jaw indicate that Neosaurus belongs to the family Sphenacodontidae, which includes the better-known Dimetrodon from the Southwestern United States. The maxilla was first attributed to an early diapsid reptile in 1857, and later a crocodylomorph in 1869, before finally being identified as a sphenacodont synapsid i

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Vinony's link graph records 118 inbound references to Neosaurus, and connects out to Varanopidae, Eupelycosauria and Hypsibema missouriensis.

It is catalogued under topics including Carboniferous France, Carboniferous synapsids and Cisuralian synapsids of Europe.

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Parent taxon: Sphenacodontidae
Image: Neosaurus.jpg

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taxon name: Neosaurus
taxon rank: genus
location of discovery: Jura
start time: 300000000-
end time: 295500000-
Commons category: Neosaurus
time period: Cisuralian

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A species of the hadrosaur dinosaur Hypsibema, H. missouriensis, is also called Neosaurus, although because the name was already in use, that species was renamed Parrosaurus before being reassigned to Hypsibema.

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