Fodonyx

Fodonyx
Temporal range: Middle Triassic, Anisian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: †Rhynchosauria
Family: †Rhynchosauridae
Clade: †Hyperodapedontidae
Genus: †Fodonyx
Hone & Benton, 2008
Species
  • †F. spenceri (Benton, 1990) (type)

Fodonyx (meaning "digging claw") is an extinct genus of rhynchosaur from the middle Triassic epoch of Devon in England.[1] Its fossils (25 specimens) were discovered in Otter Sandstone Formation (late Anisian age) and were first assigned to Rhynchosaurus spenceri. This species was reassigned to its own genus, Fodonyx (the type and only species is Fodonyx spenceri) the holotype of which is EXEMS 60/1985/292 , that described by David W. E. Hone and Michael J. Benton in 2008.[1] More recently, one skull was reassigned to the new genus Bentonyx.[2]

Cladogram based on Ezcurra et al. (2016):[3]

Rhynchosauria


Mesosuchus


Howesia

Rhynchosauridae

Rhynchosaurus


Hyperodapedontidae

Stenaulorhynchinae


Mariante rhynchosaur

Stenaulorhynchus


Langeronyx


Bentonyx


Fodonyx


Hyperodapedontinae


Isalorhynchus


Teyumbaita

Hyperodapedon











References

  1. 1 2 David W. E. Hone; 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.
  2. ↑ Max C. Langer; Felipe C. Montefeltro; David E. Hone; Robin Whatley; Cesar L. Schultz (2010). "On Fodonyx spenceri and a new rhynchosaur from the Middle Triassic of Devon". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30 (6): 1884–1888. doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.521901.
  3. ↑ Martin D. Ezcurra; Felipe C. Montefeltro; Richard J. Butler (2016). "The Early Evolution of Rhynchosaurs". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 3: 142. doi:10.3389/fevo.2015.00142.


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