波罗蜥科（Bolosauridae）是一群已绝种的早期爬行动物，生存于二叠纪早到中期。化石在北美洲、俄罗斯、法国、德国、中国发现；生存年代最早是石炭纪最晚期（格舍尔阶）或二叠纪最早期（阿舍尔阶）[1][2]。
其包括的真双足蜥属是目前已知最古老的二足脊椎动物[3][4][5]。波罗蜥科的牙齿显示它们可能是植食性动物[6]。
以下波罗蜥科演化树是根据Robert R. Reisz等人在2008年的研究[7]：
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真双足蜥属
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| 波罗蜥属
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Bolosaurus grandis
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Bolosaurus striatus
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| 别里贝蜥属
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Belebey chengi
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Belebey maximi
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Belebey vegrandis
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参考资料[编辑]
- ^ Marcello Ruta, Juan C. Cisneros, Torsten Liebrect, Linda A. Tsuji and Johannes Muller. Amniotes through major biological crises: faunal turnover among Parareptiles and the end-Permian mass extinction. Palaeontology. 2011, 54 (5): 1117–1137 [2012-06-26]. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01051.x. （原始内容存档于2017-08-23）.
- ^ Jocelyn Falconnet. First evidence of a bolosaurid parareptile in France (latest Carboniferous-earliest Permian of the Autun basin) and the spatiotemporal distribution of the Bolosauridae. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France. 2012, 183 (6): 495–508 [2013-01-22]. doi:10.2113/gssgfbull.183.6.495. （原始内容存档于2016-06-01）.
- ^ Berman, DS, RR Reisz, D Scott, AC Henrici, SS Sumida & T Martens (2000), Early Permian bipedal reptile. Science 290: 969-972
- ^ Michael J. Benton Vertebrate Palaeontology, pg.115
- ^ Science mag article (non free)
- ^ REISZ, ROBERT R.; MÜLLER, JOHANNES; TSUJI, LINDA; SCOTT, DIANE. The cranial osteology of Belebey vegrandis (Parareptilia: Bolosauridae), from the Middle Permian of Russia, and its bearing on reptilian evolution. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 2007-09, 151 (1): 191–214. ISSN 1096-3642. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00312.x.
- ^ Johannes Müller, Jin-Ling Li and Robert R. Reisz. A new bolosaurid parareptile, Belebey chengi sp. nov., from the Middle Permian of China and its paleogeographic significance. Naturwissenschaften. 2008, 95 (12): 1169–1174. doi:10.1007/s00114-008-0438-0. [永久失效链接]
