''Pamelina'' is an extinct

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of basal

kuehneosaurid Kuehneosauridae is an extinct family of small, lizard-like gliding diapsids known from the Triassic period of Europe and North America. Description and systematics They are distinguished from other diapsids by their 'wings' formed by elongated ...

known from

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(

Olenekian In the geologic timescale, the Olenekian is an age (geology), age in the Early Triassic epoch (geology), epoch; in chronostratigraphy, it is a stage (stratigraphy), stage in the Lower Triassic series (stratigraphy), series. It spans the time betw ...

age) rocks of Czatkowice 1,

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

.. It was first named by Susan E. Evans in 2009 and the type species is ''Pamelina polonica''. It is the oldest known member of Kuehneosauridae. The vertebrae have characteristics consistent with gliding or parachuting.

Phylogeny

Cladogram A cladogram (from Greek language, Greek ''clados'' "branch" and ''gramma'' "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms. A cladogram is not, however, an Phylogenetic tree, evolutionary tree because it does not s ...

after Evans (2009).

References

Kuehneosauridae Fossil taxa described in 2009 Early Triassic reptiles of Europe Prehistoric reptile genera {{triassic-reptile-stub