Supradapedon

Supradapedon
Temporal range: Middle - Late Triassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: †Rhynchosauria
Family: †Hyperodapedontidae
Subfamily: †Hyperodapedontinae
Genus: †Supradapedon
Chatterjee, 1980
Species
  • †S. stockleyi (Boonstra, 1953) (type)
Synonyms
  • Scaphonyx stockleyi Boonstra, 1953
  • Hyperodepedon sp. Langer et al., 2000

Supradapedon is an extinct genus of hyperodapedontine rhynchosaur from mid-late Triassic deposits of Tanganyika Territory, Tanzania. It is known from the holotype SAM-11704. The holotype and only specimen of Supradapedon was first assigned to a species of Scaphonyx (now considered to be a nomen dubium), Scaphonyx stockleyi.[1] This species was reassigned to its own genus by Sankar Chatterjee in 1980 and the type species is Supradapedon stockleyi.[2] One study, Langer et al. (2000), concluded that Supradapedon is a synonym of Hyperodepedon and referred it to Hyperodepedon sp.[3] However, the provisional validity of this genus has been commonly accepted since.[4][5][6]

References

  1. ↑ Boonstra D.D. (1953). "A note on some rhyncosaurian remains from Tanganyika territory". Annals of South Africa Museum 42 (1): 1–4.
  2. ↑ Sankar Chatterjee (1980). "The evolution of Rhyncosaurs". Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France 139: 57–65.
  3. ↑ M. Langer, M. Boniface, G. Cuny and L. Barbieri (2000). "The phylogenetic position of Isalorhynchus genovefae, a Late Triassic rhynchosaur from Madagascar". Annales de Paléontologie 86 (2): 101–127. doi:10.1016/s0753-3969(00)80002-6.
  4. ↑ Langer, M. C. (1996). "Rincossauros sul-brasileiros: histórico e filogenia". Dissertação de Mestrado não publicada, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.
  5. ↑ Felipe Chinaglia Montefeltro (2008). "Inter-relações filogenéticas dos rincossauros (Diapsida, Archosauromorpha)". Unpublished Thesis, Biology Department, Universidade de Sa˜o Paulo, Ribeira˜o Preto: 203 pp.
  6. ↑ David W. E. Hone and Michael J. Benton (2008). "A new genus of Rhynchosaur from the Middle Triassic of South-West England". Palaeontology 51 (1): 95–115. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00739.x.