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Barasaurus
''Barasaurus'' is an extinct genus of owenettid procolophonoid parareptile known from the late Late Permian and early Early Triassic of Madagascar. It contains a single species, ''Barasaurus besairiei''. ==Discovery== ''Barasaurus besairiei'', the type species of the ''Barasaurus'', was first described and named by the French paleontologist Jean Piveteau in 1955 on the basis of the holotype MNHN P1, a natural mold of a nearly complete skeleton, missing only the tail and distal limb reposited in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. The holotype was collected from the Lower Sakamena Formation of the Sakamena Group at the Ranohira locality of Morondava Basin, Fianarantsoa, dating to the Lopingian stage of the late Late Permian period. The generic name honors the Bara people, indigenous to the Ranohira region of Madagascar, and is derived from ''sauros'', meaning "lizard" in Ancient Greek. The specific name, ''besairiei'', honors Henri Michel-Edouard Besairie, a French geologist who supervised the Geological Survey of Madagascar and collected the holotype specimen.〔 Hilary F. Ketchum and Paul M. Barrett (2004) referred additional specimens from the Sakamena Group to ''Barasaurus''. They described four specimens, consisting of hind limb material: OUMNH GX.95, a foot including the tarsus and digits; OUMNH GX.97, left femur, possible tibia and foot; OUMNH GX.99, right tibia, fibula, and foot; and OUMNH GX.101, a foot. These specimens are housed at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. They were collected from the "Couches à Poissons et Ammonites" Member of the Middle Sakamena Formation at the only currently known amniote locality of the Diego Basin, Antsiranana of northwestern Madagascar, dating to the Induan stage of the early Early Triassic period.〔
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