Puercosaurus

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This genus (type species P. obtusidens) was described in 1916 by Samuel W. Williston but has by now been declared a nomen dubium due to bad preservation of the type material being hardly assignable to the family Captorhinidae (Berman & Reisz, 1986).

References

BERMAN, D.S. and REISZ, R.R. (1986): Captorhinid reptiles from the Early Permian of New Mexico, with description of a new genus and species. Ann. Carnegie Mus., 55, pp. 1-28
WILLISTON, S. W. (1916): The osteology of some American Permian vertebrates II. Contr. Walker Mus., 1(9), pp. 165-192

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