Ebrachosaurus

Ebrachosaurus
Temporal range: Late Triassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Order: Aetosauria
Family: Stagonolepididae
Genus: Ebrachosaurus
Kuhn, 1936
Species
  • E. singularis Kuhn, 1936 (type)

Ebrachosaurus is an extinct genus of aetosaur.[1] It was named after the town of Ebrach, Germany, near an outcrop of the Blasensandstein Formation where the original fossils have been found.[2] Other Blasensandstein fauna include the temnospondyl Metoposaurus and the phytosaur Francosuchus.[3] The genus has often been considered synonymous with the closely related Stagonolepis.[4][5][6] Unfortunately, the holotype specimen was lost during World War II,[7] so its relationships within Stagonolepididae remain indeterminant.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Carroll, R.L. (1988). Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. WH Freeman and Company, New York ISBN 0-7167-1822-7
  2. ↑ Kuhn, O. (1936). "Weitere Parasuchier und Labyrinthodonten aus dem Blasensandstein des mittleren Keuper von Ebrach". Palaeontographica. 83: 61–98.
  3. ↑ Langer, M. C. (2005). "Studies on continental Late Triassic tetrapod biochronology. II. The Ischigualastian and a Carnian global correlation". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 19 (2): 219–239. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2005.04.002.
  4. ↑ Benton, M.J.; Walker, A.D. (1985). "Palaeoecology, taphonomy, and dating of Permo-Triassic reptiles from Elgin, north-east Scotland". Palaeontology. 28: 207–234.
  5. ↑ Heckert, A. B.; Lucas, S. G. (1999). "A new aetosaur (Reptilia: Archosauria) from the Upper Triassic of Texas and the phylogeny of aetosaurs". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 19 (1): 50–68. doi:10.1080/02724634.1999.10011122.
  6. ↑ Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G. (2000). Taxonomy, phylogeny, biostratigraphy, biochronology, paleobiogeography, and evolution of the Late Triassic Aetosauria (Archosauria:Crurotarsi). Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie Teil I 1998 Heft 11-12, p. 1539-1587.
  7. ↑ Lucas, S. G. (2007). "Global Triassic tetrapod biostratigraphy and biochronology: 2007 status". New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin. 41: 229–240.
  8. ↑ Parker, W. G. (2003). Description of a new specimen of Desmatosuchus haplocerus from the Late Triassic of Northern Arizona. Unpublished MS thesis. Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff. 315 pp.


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