Mesodapedon
Mesodapedon Temporal range: Middle Triassic,
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | †Rhynchosauria |
Family: | †Hyperodapedontidae |
Subfamily: | †Stenaulorhynchinae |
Genus: | †Mesodapedon Chatterjee, 1980 |
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Mesodapedon is an extinct genus of hyperodapedontid rhynchosaur from middle Triassic (Anisian stage) deposits of India. It is known from the holotype ISIR-300 and from the paratype ISIR-301 from the Yerrapalli Formation. It was first named by Sankar Chatterjee in 1980 and the type species is Mesodapedon kuttyi.[1] It is extremely closely related to the Tanzanian Stenaulorhynchus and even was considered to be its synonym.[2]
References[]
- ^ Sankar Chatterjee (1980). "The evolution of Rhyncosaurs". Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France. 139: 57–65.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
- ^ David M. Dilkes (1998). "The Early Triassic rhynchosaur Mesosuchus browni and the interrelationships of basal archosauromorph reptiles". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B. 353 (1368): 501–541. doi:10.1098/rstb.1998.0225. PMC 1692244.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
Categories:
- Rhynchosaurs
- Middle Triassic reptiles of Asia
- Fossil taxa described in 1980
- Anisian life
- Prehistoric reptile genera
- Triassic reptile stubs