Discosauriscus

Discosauriscus
Temporal range:
Discosauriscus austriacus
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: †Seymouriamorpha
Family: †Discosauriscidae
Genus: †Discosauriscus
Kuhn, 1933
Species
  • Discosauriscus austriacus (Makowsky, 1876)
  • Discosauriscus pulcherrimus (Fritsch, 1879) (type)
Synonyms
  • Letoverpeton Spinar, 1952

Discosauriscus was a small seymouriamorph which lived in what is now Central and Western Europe during the latest Carboniferous and in the Early Permian Period. Its best fossils have been found in the Broumov and Bačov Formations of Boskovice Furrow, in the Czech Republic.

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