Pareiasaurs (meaning "cheek lizards") are an extinct clade of large, herbivorous parareptiles. Members of the group were armoured with osteoderms which...

Parasaurus (meaning "near lizard") is a genus of pareiasaur known from fossils collected in the Kupferschiefer in Germany (Hesse, Thuringia and Lower Saxony)...

Scutosaurus ("shield lizard") is an extinct genus of pareiasaur parareptiles. Its genus name refers to large plates of armor scattered across its body...

Sanchuansaurus is an extinct genus of pareiasaur from the late Permian Sunjiagou Formation of China. The genus contains a single species, S. pygmaeus,...

Obirkovia is an extinct genus of pareiasaur from the late Permian Salarevo Formation of Russia. The genus contains a single species, O. gladiator, known...

gorgonopsians and herbivorous beaked dicynodonts, alongside large herbivorous pareiasaur parareptiles. The Archosauromorpha, the group of reptiles that would give...

new lifeforms. In particular, the extinction of the large herbivorous pareiasaurs and carnivorous gorgonopsians left those ecological niches empty. Some...

Embrithosaurus was a pareiasaur from the Permian of South Africa. Embrithosaurus was 3 metres (9 ft 10 in) in length and 600 kilograms (1,300 lb) in weight...

Bradysaurus was a large, early and common pareiasaur. They possessed a covering of armoured scutes, likely serving as defense against their main predators...

Nanoparia is an extinct genus of pareiasaur that lived in the Permian. It was about 60 cm (23.6 in) in length, and weighed around 8 to 10 kilograms (17...