| Lanthaniscus Temporal range: Middle Permian, | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | † Parareptilia |
| Order: | † Procolophonomorpha |
| Family: | † Lanthaniscidae Ivakhnenko, 2008 |
| Genus: | † Lanthaniscus Ivakhnenko, 1980 |
| Type species | |
| †Lanthaniscus efremovi Ivakhnenko, 1980 | |
Lanthaniscus is an extinct genus of lanthanosuchoid ankyramorph parareptile known from the Guadalupian epoch (Late Roadian to latest Wordian age) of Eastern Europe, Russia. [1] Lanthaniscus was first named by M. F. Ivakhnenko in 1980 and the type species is Lanthaniscus efremovi. L. efremovi was originally described on the basis of the holotype PIN 3706/9 from Peza-1 locality, Krasnoshchel' Formation, of Arkhangelsk. [2] Various authors had assigned it to the family Lanthanosuchidae; [3] [4] however, Ivakhnenko, who described an additional specimen of L. efremovi in 2008, assigned Lanthaniscus to its own family, the Lanthaniscidae. The additional specimen PIN 4543/2, was collected from the same formation as the holotype, from the Nisogora locality, which is slightly younger in age. [2]
