| 词条 | Elginia |
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| name = Elginia | fossil_range = Changhsingian, {{fossilrange|254|252}} | image = Elginia_BW.jpg | image_caption = Restoration of Elginia mirabilis | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Chordata | classis = Reptilia | ordo = Procolophonomorpha | familia = †Pareiasauridae | subfamilia = †Elgininiinae | genus = †Elginia | genus_authority = Newton, 1893 | type_species = {{extinct}}Elginia mirabilis | type_species_authority = Newton, 1893 | subdivision_ranks = Other species | subdivision =
}} Elginia was a pareiasaur; a member of a group of Late Permian parareptiles which may have grown up to {{convert|3|m|ft}}. It was named for the area around Elgin in Scotland, which has yielded many fossils referred to as the Elgin Reptiles. DescriptionElginia was a dwarf genus of pareiasaur, only about {{convert|60|cm|ft|sigfig=1}} long, with fossils found at Elgin in Scotland (E. mirabilis) and China (E. wuyongae). The type species, E. mirabilis, is known only from a single skull, which is about 15 cm long, triangular, coarsely sculptured, and armed with a number of paired bosses or spines, with the longest pair growing out of the back of the skull. These spikes were probably used for display rather than physical combat.[1] The upper jaw bears 12 pairs of teeth, each with 9 or 10 cusps. The teeth are slightly constricted at the base and serrated at the crown. ClassificationAs with many pareiasaurs, precise phylogenetic placement is uncertain. Elginia shares with Scutosaurus elaborate cranial ornament, which has been used to suggest the two were closely related.[2] Elginia has also been hypothesized to share a relationship with the more basal taxon Dolichopareia (=Nochelesaurus) on the basis of a deeply notched skull table shared with the latter,[3] however other authors have argued that this association was based on taphonomic distortion.[4] Cladistic analyses have tended to nest Elginia deeper among pareiasaurs, making it more derived than the earlier giant Pareiasaurus and Scutosaurus. The placement of Elginia remains volatile, with the taxon hopping between more apical pareiasaurs such as Therischian[4][5] and more basal pareiasaurs such as Scutosaurus and pumiliopareiasaurs.[6] References1. ^{{cite book |editor=Palmer, D.|year=1999 |title= The Marshall Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals|publisher= Marshall Editions|location=London|page= 64|isbn= 1-84028-152-9}} 2. ^{{cite journal |last1=Boonstra |first1=L.D. |year=1932 |title=The Phylogenesis of the Pareiasauridae: A Study in Evolution |journal=South African Journal of Science |volume=29 |pages=480–486}} 3. ^{{cite journal|last1=Walker|first1=A. D.|title=The age of the Cuttie's Hillock Sandstone (Permo-Triassic) of the Elgin area |journal=Scottish Journal of Geology |date=1973 |volume=9 |issue=3 |pages=177–183 |doi=10.1144/sjg09030177}} 4. ^1 {{cite journal |last1=Lee |first1=M.S.Y. |title=Pareiasaur phylogeny and the origin of turtles |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |date=1997 |volume=120 |issue=3 |pages=197–280 |doi=10.1006/zjls.1997.0080}} 5. ^{{cite journal |last1=Jalil |first1=Nour-Eddine |last2=Janvier |first2=Philippe |title=Les pareiasaures (Amniota, Parareptilia) du Permien supérieur du Bassin d'Argana, Maroc |journal=Geodiversitas |date=2005 |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=35–132 |url=http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/geodiversitas/27/1/les-pareiasaures-amniota-parareptilia-du-permien-superieur-du-bassin-d-argana-maroc|language=fr}} 6. ^{{cite journal |last1=Tsuji |first1=Linda A. |last2=Müller |first2=Johannes |title=Assembling the history of the Parareptilia: phylogeny, diversification, and a new definition of the clade |journal=Fossil Record |date=2009 |volume=12|issue=1 |pages=71–81 |doi=10.1002/mmng.200800011}} External links
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