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Owenettidae
Owenettidae is an extinct family of procolophonian parareptiles. Fossils have been found primarily from Africa and Madagascar, with one genus present from South America. It is the sister taxon to the family Procolophonidae.
The family was constructed in 1939 for the type genus ''Owenetta''. Since then several other genera have been assigned to Owenettidae, including ''Barasaurus'' and ''Saurodektes''. The oldest known owenettid, ''Owenetta rubidgei'', dates back to the Wuchiapingian stage of the Late Permian. It and ''Saurodektes'', have been found from the Beaufort Group in the Karoo Basin of South Africa, while ''Barasaurus'' is known from the Late Permian and the Early Triassic of Sakamena Group in Madagascar. These strata span the Permo-Triassic boundary and provide evidence for the great faunal change that occurred as a result of the Permian–Triassic extinction event. Although most owenettids lived during the Permian, remains of some taxa such as ''"Owenetta" kitchingorum'' (soon to be placed within its own genus〔Modesto, S. P., Damiani, R. J., Neveling, J. and Yates, A. M. (2003). A new Triassic owenettid parareptile and the Mother of Mass Extinctions. ''Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology'' 23(3):715–719.〕) extend the temporal range of the family into the Triassic. The youngest known owenettid is ''Candelaria'' from the Santa Maria Formation of Brazil, which lived during the Ladinian stage of the Middle Triassic.〔Cisneros, J. C., Damiani, R., Schultz, C., da Rosa, A., Schwanke, C., Neto, L. W. and Aurélio, P. L. P. (2004) A procolophonoid reptile with temporal fenestration from the Middle Triassic of Brazil. ''Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B'' 271(1547):1541–1546.〕
The second youngest known owenettid, ''Ruhuhuaria'', is known from the late Anisian Manda Beds of southwestern Tanzania.
==Description==
Owenettids were relatively small procolophonians that possessed broad heads and robust bodies. The family shares several synapomorphies that separate it from other related procolophonomorphs. The absence of an entepicondylar foramen is diagnostic to all members from which the humerus is known. In regards to cranial anatomy, there is no contact between the postorbital and parietal bones as a result of enlarged postfrontal bones, and the skull table is formed partly from large supratemporals lateral to the parietal bones.〔Reisz, R. R. and Scott, D. (2002). ''Owenetta kitchingorum'', sp. nov., a small parareptile (Procolophonia: Owenettidae) from the Lower Triassic of South Africa. ''Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology'' 22(2):244-256.〕
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