''Emeroleter'' is an
extinct genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
nycteroleterid
Nycteroleteridae is a family of procolophonian parareptilians (extinct early reptiles) from the Middle to Late Permian of Russia and North America. They are sometimes classified as a sister group to pareiasaurids (but see ''Classification)'' ...
parareptile
Parareptilia ("at the side of reptiles") is a subclass or clade of basal sauropsids (reptiles), typically considered the sister taxon to Eureptilia (the group that likely contains all living reptiles and birds). Parareptiles first arose near th ...
known from the early
Late Permian
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of
European Russia. It was a long-legged
lizard-like small animal with a length about 30 cm.
References
Permian reptiles of Europe
Pareiasauromorphs
Fossil taxa described in 1997
Prehistoric reptile genera
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