Bradysaurus

Bradysaurus
	Skeleton reconstruction of Bradysaurus baini in the Natural History Museum Vienna
Temporal occurrence
	Capitanium to Wuchiapingium ( Middle Perm )
	265 to 260.5 million years
Locations
	South Africa;
Systematics
	Sauropsida
	Parareptiles (Parareptilia)
	Procolophonia
	Hallucicrania
	Pareiasauria
	Bradysaurus
Scientific name
	Bradysaurus
	Watson , 1914
species
	Bradysaurus baini; Bradysaurus seeleyi;

Bradysaurus was a herbivorous reptile . Its fossils were discovered inrocksthat are around 265 to 260.5 million years old in South Africa .

The body length of Bradysaurus is about 2.5 m, its skull measures about half a meter. He moved quadruped (four-legged). Like other Pareiasaurids , the animal was stocky and muscular and had a relatively short tail compared to its entire body length. Its jaw shows the teeth typical of the herbivores of the time .

Bradysaurus lived as a herbivorous Pareiasauridae on shrubs and ferns. He lived in flocks for mutual protection. This enabled him to defend himself better against potential predators such as gorgonopsids or other carnivorous theriodontia .

Within the genus Bradysaurus , two species are known with Bradysaurus baini and Bradysaurus seeleyi .

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c David MS Watson : On the Nomenclature of the South-African Pariasaurians. In: The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 8, Vol. 14, No. 79, Article 15, 1914, ISSN 0374-5481 , pp. 98-102, doi : 10.1080 / 00222931408693549 , digitized .
^ Sidney H. Haughton, Lieuwe D. Boonstra: Pareiasaurian Studies. Part I. - An Attempt at a Classification of the Pareiasauria based on Skull Features. In: Annals of the South African Museum. Vol. 28, No. 1, 1929, ISSN 0303-2515 , pp. 79-87, digitized .

Web links

Commons : Bradysaurus - collection of images, videos and audio files

Bradysaurus on www.palaeos.com
Bradysaurus in the Encyclopædia Britannica

[Watson-1] A ^b ^c David MS Watson : On the Nomenclature of the South-African Pariasaurians. In: The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 8, Vol. 14, No. 79, Article 15, 1914, ISSN 0374-5481 , pp. 98-102, doi : 10.1080 / 00222931408693549 , digitized .

[2] Sidney H. Haughton, Lieuwe D. Boonstra: Pareiasaurian Studies. Part I. - An Attempt at a Classification of the Pareiasauria based on Skull Features. In: Annals of the South African Museum. Vol. 28, No. 1, 1929, ISSN 0303-2515 , pp. 79-87, digitized .