Regisaurus

Regisaurus
Temporal range:
Skull cast seen from below, Museum of Evolution of Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: Therocephalia
Family: Regisauridae
Genus: Regisaurus
Species
  • R. jacobi Mendrez, 1972

Regisaurus ("Rex's lizard", named after Francis Rex Parrington) is an extinct genus of small carnivorous therocephalian. It is known from a single described species, the type species Regisaurus jacobi, from the Early Triassic Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone of South Africa, although at least one undescribed species is also known.