Pantylus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of tetrapods}}

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|fossil_range = Early Permian

|image = Pantylus cordatus 2.jpg

|taxon = Pantylus cordatus

|parent_authority = Cope, 1881

|authority = Cope, 1881

}}

Pantylus (from {{langx|el|παν}} {{Transliteration|el|pan}}, 'all' and {{langx|el|τύλος}} {{Transliteration|el|tylos}}, 'knob'){{cite book |last1=Miller |first1=S. A. (Samuel Almond) |title=The American Palaeozoic fossils : a catalogue of the genera and species, with names of authors, dates, places of publication, groups of rock in which found, and the etymology and signification of the words, and an introduction devoted to the stratigraphical geology of the Palæozoic rocks |date=1877 |publisher=Cincinnati, Ohio : The author |page=324 |url=https://archive.org/details/americanpalaeozo00milluoft}} is an extinct microsaurian tetrapod from the Permian period of North America.

Image:Pantylus cordatus.JPG

Pantylus was probably a largely terrestrial animal, judging from its well-built legs. It was about {{convert|25|cm|in|0}} long, and resembled a lizard with a large skull and short limbs. It had numerous blunt teeth, and probably chased after invertebrate prey.{{cite book |editor=Palmer, D.|year=1999 |title= The Marshall Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals|publisher= Marshall Editions|location=London|page= 55|isbn= 1-84028-152-9}}