Stenotosaurus
Stenotosaurus Temporal range: Middle Triassic,
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Restoration of Stenotosaurus stantonensis | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | †Temnospondyli |
Suborder: | †Stereospondyli |
Clade: | †Capitosauria |
Family: | †Stenotosauridae |
Genus: | †Stenotosaurus Romer, 1947 |
Type species | |
†Stenotosaurus semiclausus Romer, 1947
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Other species | |
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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[]
- ^ 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.
Categories:
- Triassic temnospondyls of Europe
- Taxa named by Alfred Romer
- Fossil taxa described in 1947
- Anisian life
- Prehistoric amphibian stubs