''Penegephyrosaurus'' is an
extinct
Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...
genus of early
rhynchocephalian
Rhynchocephalia (; ) is an order of lizard-like reptiles that includes only one living species, the tuatara (''Sphenodon punctatus'') of New Zealand. Despite its current lack of diversity, during the Mesozoic rhynchocephalians were a diverse gro ...
from the
Late Triassic of the
United Kingdom. It contains a single species, ''Penegephyrosaurus curtiscoppi''.
References
Sphenodontia
Prehistoric reptile genera
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