Ankistrodon
Ankistrodon Temporal range: Early Triassic,
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Holotype in (A) lateral and (B) posterior views, with (C) a cross section of a tooth | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Family: | †Proterosuchidae |
Genus: | †Ankistrodon Huxley, 1865 |
Type species | |
†Ankistrodon indicus Huxley, 1865
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Ankistrodon is an extinct genus of archosauriform known from the Early Triassic of India. First thought to be a theropod dinosaur, it was later determined to be a proterosuchid. The type species is A. indicus, described by prolific British zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley in 1865.[1] One authority in the 1970s classified Ankistrodon as a senior synonym of Proterosuchus.[2]
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Categories:
- Fossil taxa described in 1865
- Early Triassic reptiles of Asia
- Taxa named by Thomas Henry Huxley
- Prehistoric reptile genera
- Triassic reptile stubs