Lanthanosuchidae is a
family
Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its members and of society. Idea ...
of
procolophonomorph 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 ...
s that lived 268–255 million years ago. The group was named in 1946 by
Ivan Antonovich Efremov.
[Ivakhnenko, M.F. (1980). "Lanthanosuchids from the Permian of the East European Platform". ''Paleontologica Journal'' 1980: 80-90.]
References
Procolophonomorphs
Permian reptiles
Prehistoric reptile families
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