The early Triassic 'lizard' Colubrifer campi: A reassessment

Colubrifer campi Carroll, 1982 is a small reptile represented by a single s keleton from the Lower Triassic of South Africa. Carroll attributed the gen us to the Squamata, proposing that it was a derived lizard with reduced lim bs. Re-examination of the specimen permits a rather different interpretatio n of the skull. The holotype of Colubrifer is the skeleton of a small primi tive procolophonian, almost certainly referable to the established South Af rican genus Owenetta.