Stenotosaurus

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Stenotosaurus
Temporal range: Middle Triassic, Anisian
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Stenotosaurus stantonensis.jpg
Restoration of Stenotosaurus stantonensis
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Temnospondyli
Suborder: Stereospondyli
Clade: Capitosauria
Family: Stenotosauridae
Genus: Stenotosaurus
Romer, 1947
Type species
Stenotosaurus semiclausus
Romer, 1947
Other species
  • S. gracilis
    Kamphausen, 1983
  • S. stantonensis
    Kamphausen, 1983

Stenotosaurus is an extinct genus of capitosaurian temnospondyl within the family Stenotosauridae. It is known from three species, all of which lived during the Anisian stage of the Middle Triassic. Fossils have been found in England and Germany.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ Damiani, R. J. (2001). "A systematic revision and phylogenetic analysis of Triassic mastodonsauroids (Temnospondyli: Stereospondyli)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 133 (4): 379–482. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2001.tb00635.x.


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