Named By: | Ricahrd Owen in 1876 |
Time Period: | Late Permian-Late Triassic |
Location: | Antarctica - Fremouw Formation, Brazil - Sanga do Cabral Formation, and South Africa - Katberg Formation, Normandien Formation |
Size: | Up to about 30 centimetres long |
Diet: | Herbivore |
Fossil(s): | Many individuals |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Procolophonomorpha | Procolophonidae | |
Also known as: | | Procolophon baini | Procolophon cuneiceps | Procolophon griersoni | Procolophon laticeps | Procolophon minor | Procolophon platyrhinus | Procolophon sphenorhinus | |
Procolophon was a genus of lizard-like procolophonid reptiles with at least eight species that persisted through the Permian-Triassic extinction event, but became extinct in the later Triassic.