| Bradysaurus | |
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| Bradysaurus baini | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | †Procolophonomorpha |
| Family: | †Pareiasauridae |
| Genus: | †Bradysaurus Watson, 1914 |
| Type species | |
| †Bradysaurus baini Seeley, 1892 | |
Bradysaurus was a species of pareiasaur that lived in the Middle Permian.
In life they were probably slow, clumsy and inoffensive animals, that had evolved a covering of armoured scutes to protect them against their predators, the gorgonopsians.
