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Coelurosauravus

Coelurosauravus elivensis was a small gliding reptile with a specialized skin-supporting apparatus.

Coelurosauravus elivensis was a small gliding reptile with a specialized skin-supporting apparatus. Its gliding surfaces were not feathered wings.

Coelurosauravus at a glance

Diet
Diet uncertain
When it lived
Late Permian
Group
Weigeltisauridae
Weigeltisaurids

Beyond the game

The real Coelurosauravus

Coelurosauravus elivensis was a small gliding reptile with a specialized skin-supporting apparatus. Its gliding surfaces were not feathered wings.

The supports for its gliding membrane differed from those of living flying lizards. Its skin-supported surfaces also had a different construction from pterosaur or bat wings.

Fossil discoveries

Tulear, Madagascar · approximate location
Tulear, Madagascar

Selected fossil records · present-day map

Map references

Paleobiology Database · R. L. Carroll. 1978. Permo-Triassic "lizards" from the Karoo System. Part II. A gliding reptile from the Upper Permian of Madagascar. Palaeontologia Africana 21:143-159 ↗

Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: Paleobiology Database and linked collections and publications.

Sources & text credits

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  1. Buffa et al. 2022 — The postcranial skeleton of the gliding reptile Coelurosauravus elivensis

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