Meyerosuchus
| Meyerosuchus Temporal range: Early Triassic | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Temnospondyli |
| Suborder: | †Stereospondyli |
| Clade: | †Capitosauria |
| Family: | †Stenotosauridae |
| Genus: | †Meyerosuchus Ochev, 1966 |
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Meyerosuchus is an extinct genus of mastodonsauroidean temnospondyl. Fossils have been found from the Early Triassic Hardegsen Formation in southern Germany. Meyerosuchus is present in late Olenekian deposits of the Middle Buntsandstein.[1] The type species M. fuerstenberganus was named in 1966, although remains have been known since 1855.[2] Meyerosuchus is closely related to Stenotosaurus; both genera are grouped in the family Stenotosauridae and the two genera may even be synonymous.[3]
References
- ↑ Schoch, R.R. (2011). "How diverse is the temnospondyl fauna in the Lower Triassic of southern Germany?". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 261 (1): 49–60. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2011/0147.
- ↑ Borsuk-Bialynicka, M.; Cook, E.; Evans, S.E.; Maryańska, T. (1999). "A microvertebrate assemblage from the Early Triassic of Poland". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 44 (2): 167–188.
- ↑ Lucas, S.G.; Schoch, R.R. (2002). "Triassic temnospondyl biostratigraphy, biochronology and correlation of the German Buntsandstein and North American Moenkopi Formation". Lethaia 35 (2): 97–106. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.2002.tb00071.x.
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