The Rise of Reptiles

エオリンコケリス

エオリンコケリス （）またはイオリンコケリス は三畳紀の中国に生息していた爬虫類.

スミロスクス

スミロスクス（学名：Smilosuchus） は、後期三畳紀の北アメリカから化石が産出している、絶滅した植竜類の属.

Smilosuchus

Smilosuchus (meaning "chisel crocodile") is an extinct genus of leptosuchomorph parasuchid from the Late Triassic of North America.

Largest prehistoric animals

The largest prehistoric animals include both vertebrate and invertebrate species. Many of them are described below, along with their typical range of size (for the…

Kallokibotion

Kallokibotion is an extinct genus of stem-turtle from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian, 86–66 million years ago), known from fossils found in Romania.

Eunotosaurus

Eunotosaurus (Latin: Stout-backed lizard) is an extinct genus of amniote, possibly a close relative of turtles.

Pappochelys

Pappochelys ( παπποχέλυς [πάππος (grandfather) + χέλυς (turtle) ] meaning "grandfather turtle" in Greek) is an extinct genus of diapsid reptile possibly related to…

Eorhynchochelys

Eorhynchochelys (meaning "dawn-beaked turtle" in Greek) is an extinct genus of stem-turtle from the Late Triassic Xiaowa Formation (or Wayao Member of the Falang…

Odontochelys

Odontochelys semitestacea (meaning "toothed turtle with a half-shell") is a Late Triassic relative of turtles.

Proterochersis

Proterochersis is an extinct genus of turtle from the Late Triassic period (Norian stage) of Europe.

Proganochelys

Proganochelys is an extinct, primitive stem-turtle that has been hypothesized to be the sister taxon to all other turtles creating a monophyletic group, the Casichelydia.

Meiolaniidae

Meiolaniidae is an extinct family of large, probably herbivorous stem-group turtles with heavily armored heads and tails known from South America and Australasia.

Kayentachelys

Kayentachelys ("Kayenta turtle") is an extinct genus of turtle known only from the "silty facies" of the Lower Jurassic Kayenta Formation in northeastern Arizona on the…

Eileanchelys

Eileanchelys is an extinct genus of primitive turtle from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) period some 164 million years ago of Britain.

Helochelydridae

The Helochelydridae are an extinct family of stem-turtles known from fossils found in North America and Europe spanning the Early to Late Cretaceous.

Perichelydia

Perichelydia (from Greek peri "near" and chelys "turtle") is a clade within Pantestudines (turtles and their extinct relatives) known from the Middle Jurassic to Holocene.

Sichuanchelyidae

Sichuanchelyidae is a family of extinct turtles in the clade Testudinata. It includes all perichelydians that are more closely related to Sichuanchelys than Meiolania…

Meiolaniformes

Meiolaniformes is an extinct clade of stem-group turtles, defined as all taxa more closely related to Meiolania than to Cryptodira and Pleurodira.

Choristodera

Choristodera (from the Greek χωριστός chōristos + δέρη dérē, 'separated neck') is an extinct order of semiaquatic diapsid reptiles that ranged from the Middle Jurassic…

Rieppelophis

Rieppelophis is an extinct genus of tropidophiid boa discovered in the Messel pit. The type species, Rieppelophis ermannorum, was once considered a species of Messelophis.