Procolophonidae

Procolophonids
Temporal range: Middle Permian - Late Triassic
Skeleton (top) and life restoration (bottom) of Kapes bentoni (Procolophoninae) scale bar = 1cm
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superfamily: Procolophonoidea
Family: Procolophonidae
Seeley, 1888
Subgroups and Genera
Synonyms
  • Sclerosauridae Nopcsa, 1923

Procolophonidae is an extinct family of small, lizard-like procolophonian "parareptiles" known from the Late Permian to Late Triassic that were distributed across Pangaea, having been reported from Europe, North America, China, South Africa, South America, Antarctica, and Australia.