Pentaedrusaurus

Pentaedrusaurus; Temporal range: Early Triassic
	Skeletal cast mount, Paleozoological Museum of China
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Family:	†Procolophonidae
Subfamily:	†Leptopleuroninae
Genus:	†Pentaedrusaurus; Li, 1989
Type species
	†Pentaedrusaurus ordosianus; Li, 1989

Pentaedrusaurus (meaning "pentagonal [skull] lizard"¹) is an extinct genus of procolophonid parareptile from the Early Triassic of China. It is one of the most basal members of the procolophonid subfamily Leptopleuroninae. The only known species of Pentaedrusaurus, P. ordosianus, was named in 1989 from the Heshanggou Formation.²

References

Li, J. (1989). "A new genus of Procolophonidae from Lower Triassic of Shaanxi, China" (PDF). Vertebrata PalAsiatica (in Chinese (China) and English). 27 (4): 248–267.
Cisneros, J. C. (2008). "Phylogenetic relationships of procolophonid parareptiles with remarks on their geological record". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 6 (3): 345–366. Bibcode:2008JSPal...6..345C. doi:10.1017/S1477201907002350. S2CID 84468714.

[1] Li, J. (1989). "A new genus of Procolophonidae from Lower Triassic of Shaanxi, China" (PDF). Vertebrata PalAsiatica (in Chinese (China) and English). 27 (4): 248–267.

[CJC08-2] Cisneros, J. C. (2008). "Phylogenetic relationships of procolophonid parareptiles with remarks on their geological record". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 6 (3): 345–366. Bibcode:2008JSPal...6..345C. doi:10.1017/S1477201907002350. S2CID 84468714.

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