SOUTH AFRICA

FREE (ORANGE FREE) STATE PROVINCE

DEWETSDORP DISTRICT

RIETPORT

LOWER LYSTROSAURUS ZONE

EARLY SCYTHIAN EPOCH

EARLY TRIASSIC

STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930

SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768

SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1903

SUPERLEGION: NEODIAPSIDA BENTON, 1985

LEGION: ARCHOSAUROMORPHA HUENE, 1946

SUPERCOHORT: AVEMETATARSALIA BENTON, 1999

COHORT: PROLACERTIFORMES CAMP, 1945 NOVA

MAGNORDER: PROTOROSAURIA HUXLEY, 1871

Superfamily: PROTOROSAUROIDEA Lydekker, 1888 (sensu Kuhn, 1969)

Family: PROLACERTIDAE Parrington, 1935

Prolacerta broomi

SUBCLASS: SYNAPSIDA OSBORN, 1903

SUPERORDER: THERASPIDA BROOM, 1905

GRANDORDER: EUTHERAPSIDA

MICRORDER: NEOTHERAPSIDA

ORDER: THERIODONTIA OWEN, 1881

EUTHERIODONTIA

SUBORDER: CYNODONTIA OWEN, 1860

INFRAORDER: PROCYNOSUCHIA

EPICYNODONTIA HOPSON & KITCHING, 2001

Family: GALESAURIDAE Lydekker, 1890

Galesaurus planiceps

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