Elginia mirabilis Newton 1893 (parareptile)

Reptilia - Procolophonomorpha - Elginiidae

Full reference: E. T. Newton. 1893. On some New Reptiles from the Elgin Sandstones. Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 184:431-503

Belongs to Elginia according to M. S. Y. Lee 1997

See also Cope 1896 and Newton 1893

Sister taxon: Elginia wuyongae

Type specimen: GSE 4783 to 4788, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Cutties Hillock Millstone Quarry, which is in a Changhsingian fluvial sandstone in the Cutties Hillock Sandstone Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: herbivore

Distribution: found only at Cutties Hillock Millstone Quarry

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