Lanthanolania

Lanthanolania
Temporal range: Wordian,
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Parapleurota
Genus: †Lanthanolania
Modesto & Reisz, 2003
Type species
†Lanthanolania ivakhnenkoi
Modesto & Reisz, 2003

Lanthanolania (meaning "forgotten butcher") is an extinct genus of early reptile from Middle Permian (Wordian stage, or uppermost Kazanian in Eastern Europe) deposits of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. The genus contains a single species, Lanthanolania ivakhnenkoi, known from the holotype and only specimen PIN 162/56, a nearly complete skull from the Glyadnaya Shchelya locality in Mesen District. It was named in 2003 by Sean P. Modesto and Robert R. Reisz.

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