Civet, 1982 Sauravus is an extinct genus of nectridean tetrapodomorphs within the family Scincosauridae.

[1] This town and its adjacent community Montceau-les-Mines possess containing abundant Carboniferous fossils.

These fossils are believed to have been from the Stephanian B stage of the Late Carboniferous, approximately 305 to 304 million years ago.

[2] Sauravus cambrayi is known from Les Télots, a mine near Autun, Saône-et-Loire, France.

In 2014, Schneider et al. suggested that the Millery Formation dated to the middle Artinskian age, about 290 to 286 million years ago.