Belebey (reptile)

Belebey
Temporal range: Permian, 296–265 Ma
Holotype maxilla (top, IVPP IG CAGS V331) and paratype dentary (bottom, IVPP V12007) of B. chengi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Family: †Bolosauridae
Genus: †Belebey
Ivakhnenko, 1973
Species
  • †B. vegrandis Ivakhnenko, 1973 (type)
  • †B. maximi Tverdokhlebova, 1987
  • †B. chengi Müller, Li & Reisz, 2008
  • †B. augustodunensis Falconnet, 2012
  • †B. shumovi Bulanov et al., 2022
Life restoration of B. vegrandis

Belebey is an extinct genus of bolosaurid reptile containing species known from the latest Carboniferous (Gzhelian) or earliest Permian (Asselian) to Guadalupian (Middle Permian) stage of Europe (Russia, France) and Asia (China, Qingtoushan Formation).

References

  1. ↑ Johannes Müller; Jin-Ling Li & Robert R. Reisz (2008). "A new bolosaurid parareptile, Belebey chengi sp. nov., from the Middle Permian of China and its paleogeographic significance". Naturwissenschaften. 95 (12): 1169–1174. Bibcode:2008NW.....95.1169M. doi:10.1007/s00114-008-0438-0. PMID 18726080. S2CID 34304658.
  2. ↑ Marcello Ruta; Juan C. Cisneros; Torsten Liebrect; Linda A. Tsuji; Johannes Muller (2011). "Amniotes through major biological crises: faunal turnover among Parareptiles and the end-Permian mass extinction". Palaeontology. 54 (5): 1117–1137. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01051.x.
  3. ↑ Jocelyn Falconnet (2012). "First evidence of a bolosaurid parareptile in France (latest Carboniferous-earliest Permian of the Autun basin) and the spatiotemporal distribution of the Bolosauridae". Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France. 183 (6): 495–508. doi:10.2113/gssgfbull.183.6.495.