Heptasaurus
Heptasaurus Temporal range: Triassic
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Underside of the skull of Heptasaurus cappelensis | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | †Temnospondyli |
Suborder: | †Stereospondyli |
Clade: | †Capitosauria |
Family: | †Mastodonsauridae |
Genus: | †Heptasaurus Säve-Söderbergh, 1935 |
Type species | |
†Heptasaurus cappelensis (Wepfer, 1923 [originally Mastodonsaurus cappelensis])
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Heptasaurus is an extinct genus of Triassic capitosaurian temnospondyl amphibian within the family Mastodonsauridae.[1][2]
References[]
- ^ Schoch, Rainer R. (1999). Comparative osteology of Mastodonsaurus giantess (Jaeger, 1828) from the Middle Triassic (Lettenkeuper: Longobardian) of Germany (Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Thüringen) (PDF). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B. Vol. 278. Stuttgart: Staatl. Museum für Naturkunde. OCLC 247114091.
- ^ Heptasaurus in the Paleobiology Database
Categories:
- Capitosaurs
- Triassic temnospondyls of Europe
- Fossil taxa described in 1935
- Prehistoric amphibian stubs