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Brouffia

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Clade
  
Eureptilia

Phylum
  
Chordata

Class
  
Reptilia

Species
  
†B. orientalis

Rank
  
Genus

Brouffia wwwreptileevolutioncomimagesarchosauromorphab

Similar
  
Thuringothyris, Paleothyris, Protorothyrididae, Labidosaurikos, Kenyasaurus

Brouffia is an extinct genus of Late Carboniferous (late Westphalian stage) basal reptile known from Pilsen of Czech Republic. It is known from a single partial skeleton, the holotype ČGH III B.21.C.587 and MP 451 (part and counterpart). It was collected in the Nýřany site from the Nýřany Member of the Kladno Formation. It was first named by was first named by Robert L. Carroll and Donald Baird in 1972 and the type species is Brouffia orientalis.

References

Brouffia Wikipedia