Dromotectum is an extinct genus

Genus

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 of bystrowianid reptiliomorph from lower Triassic

Triassic

The Triassic is a geologic period and system that extends from about 250 to 200 Mya . As the first period of the Mesozoic Era, the Triassic follows the Permian and is followed by the Jurassic. Both the start and end of the Triassic are marked by major extinction events...

 deposits of Samara Region, european Russia

Russia

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. It is known from the holotype

Holotype

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 PIN 2424/23, which consists of armor scute and from PIN 2424/65, 4495/14 and 2252/397 which can be assigned to this genus. It was found in the Staritskaya Formation of the Rybinskin Horizon. It was first named by I.V. Novikov and M.A. Shishkin in 2000

2000 in paleontology

-Newly named insects:-Newly named placoderms:-Amphibians:-Ichthyosaurs:-Newly named crurotarsans:-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr...

 and the type species

Type species

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 is Dromotectum spinosum. The generic name means “corridor with hipped vault” (dromos in Greek

Greek language

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) + “roof” (tecton), and the specific name means “spinous” (spinosum in Latin

Latin

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).