Sauropareion (meaning "lizard cheek") is an extinct genus of basal procolophonid[1] parareptile from earliest Triassic (early Induan stage) deposits of Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.

It was collected by the late L. D. Boonstra in 1935 from Barendskraal in the Middelburg District and referred to the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone of the Beaufort Group (Karoo Basin).

It was first named by Sean P. Modesto, Hans-Dieter Sues and Ross J. Damiani in 2001 and the type species is Sauropareion anoplus.

The generic name means "lizard", sauros, and "cheek", pareion from Greek in reference to the lizard-like appearance of the temporal region.

[2] Cladogram after Cisneros, 2008:[1] Coletta Pintosaurus Sauropareion Phaanthosaurus "Eumetabolodon" dongshengensis Theledectes Tichvinskia Procolophoninae Leptopleuroninae