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Saurosternon
Temporal range: Late Permian
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Neodiapsida
Genus: †Saurosternon
Huxley, 1868
Type species
†Saurosternon bainii
Huxley, 1868

Saurosternon is an extinct genus of neodiapsid reptile from the Late Permian of South Africa. It is based on a partial skeleton split between two slabs of sandstone from the Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone.[1] Saurosternon was one of the earliest small lizard-like reptiles to be discovered in Permian deposits of the Karoo Supergroup, preceding later discoveries such as Paliguana, Youngina, Palaeagama, and Lacertulus. The skeleton is mostly complete, though missing the head. Most of the original bone had decayed away by the time the fossil was discovered, leaving perfect molds in the sandstone slabs. What little bone remained was removed with acid by museum preparators, and the specimen was cast with latex to reconstruct the original bone shape.[2]

The affinities of Saurosternon are uncertain. Several studies interpreted it as one of the earliest lepidosauromorphs, the reptile group including squamates (lizards and snakes), rhynchocephalians (tuatara and kin), and their close relatives.[3] One study proposed that Saurosternon was a "paliguanid", a suggested (and likely invalid) ancestral family of lizards also including Paliguana and Palaeagama.[2] More recently it has generally been considered an early neodiapsid outside of Sauria (the crown group of reptiles).[4][5]

  1. ^ Viglietti, P.A. (2020-06-01). "Biostratigraphy of the Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone (Beaufort Group, Karoo Supergroup), South Africa". South African Journal of Geology. 123 (2): 191–206. doi:10.25131/sajg.123.0014. ISSN 1996-8590. S2CID 225878211.
  2. ^ a b Carroll, Robert L. (1975). "Permo-Triassic 'lizards' from the Karroo". Palaeontologia Africana. 18: 71–87.
  3. ^ Evans, S. E. (1984). "The classification of the Lepidosauria". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 82 (1–2): 87–100. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1984.tb00537.x.
  4. ^ Ezcurra, Martín D.; Scheyer, Torsten M.; Butler, Richard J. (2014-02-27). "The Origin and Early Evolution of Sauria: Reassessing the Permian Saurian Fossil Record and the Timing of the Crocodile-Lizard Divergence". PLOS ONE. 9 (2): e89165. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...989165E. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0089165. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3937355. PMID 24586565.
  5. ^ Simões, Tiago R.; Caldwell, Michael W.; Tałanda, Mateusz; Bernardi, Massimo; Palci, Alessandro; Vernygora, Oksana; Bernardini, Federico; Mancini, Lucia; Nydam, Randall L. (2018). "The origin of squamates revealed by a Middle Triassic lizard from the Italian Alps". Nature. 557 (7707): 706–709. Bibcode:2018Natur.557..706S. doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0093-3. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 29849156. S2CID 44108416.

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