:Belebey (genus)

{{Short description|Extinct genus of reptiles}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Belebey

| fossil_range = Permian, {{fossil_range|296|265}}

| image = Belebey1DB.jpg

| image_caption = Life restoration of Belebey vegrandis

| authority = Ivakhnenko, 1973

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = *†B. vegrandis Ivakhnenko, 1973 (type)

• †B. maximi Tverdokhlebova, 1987
• †B. chengi Müller, Li & Reisz, 2008
• †B. augustodunensis Falconnet, 2012
• †B. shumovi Bulanov et al., 2022

}}

Belebey is an extinct genus of bolosaurid reptile containing species known from the latest Carboniferous (Gzhelian) or earliest Permian (Asselian) to Guadalupian (Middle Permian) stage of Europe (Russia, France) and Asia (China, Qingtoushan Formation).{{cite journal |author1=Johannes Müller |author2=Jin-Ling Li |author3=Robert R. Reisz |name-list-style=amp |year=2008 |title=A new bolosaurid parareptile, Belebey chengi sp. nov., from the Middle Permian of China and its paleogeographic significance |journal=Naturwissenschaften |volume=95 |issue=12 |pages=1169–1174 |doi=10.1007/s00114-008-0438-0 |pmid=18726080|bibcode=2008NW.....95.1169M |s2cid=34304658 }}{{cite journal |author1=Marcello Ruta |author2=Juan C. Cisneros |author3=Torsten Liebrect |author4=Linda A. Tsuji |author5=Johannes Muller |year=2011 |title=Amniotes through major biological crises: faunal turnover among Parareptiles and the end-Permian mass extinction |journal=Palaeontology |volume=54 |issue=5 |pages=1117–1137 |doi=10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01051.x|doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |author=Jocelyn Falconnet |year=2012 |title=First evidence of a bolosaurid parareptile in France (latest Carboniferous-earliest Permian of the Autun basin) and the spatiotemporal distribution of the Bolosauridae |journal=Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France |volume=183 |issue=6 |pages=495–508 |url=http://bsgf.geoscienceworld.org/content/183/6/495.abstract |doi=10.2113/gssgfbull.183.6.495|url-access=subscription }}