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Nycteroleter

Nycteroleter
Temporal range:
Fossil of N. bashkyricus in Moscow Paleontological Museum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Subclass: Parareptilia
Order: Procolophonomorpha
Family: Nycteroleteridae
Genus: Nycteroleter
Efremov, 1938
Type species
Nycteroleter ineptus
Efremov, 1938

Nycteroleter is an extinct genus of nycteroleterid parareptile known from the Middle Permian of European Russia.[1] Fossils were first found in the Mezen River, near to Arkhangelsk. Within the Nycteroleteridae, it is considered most closely related to Emeroleter. However, its legs were shorter than those of Emeroleter and its skull was flatter.[2] Nycteroleter was insectivorous, and may have been nocturnal. It was a small animal, less than a metre long.

  1. ^ Cisneros, J. C. (2008). "Phylogenetic relationships of procolophonid parareptiles with remarks on their geological record". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 6 (3): 345–366. doi:10.1017/S1477201907002350. S2CID 84468714.
  2. ^ "Palaeos Vertebrates Anapsida: Nycteroleteridae". palaeos.com. Retrieved 2018-02-16.

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