Yuanansuchus
Yuanansuchus Temporal range: Anisian
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Holotype skull, Paleozoological Museum of China | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | †Temnospondyli |
Suborder: | †Stereospondyli |
Clade: | †Capitosauria |
Family: | †Heylerosauridae |
Genus: | †Yuanansuchus Liu and Wang, 2005 |
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Yuanansuchus is an extinct genus of mastodonsauroid temnospondyl. Fossils have been found from the in Yuan'an County, Hubei, China and date back to the Anisian stage of the Middle Triassic.[1]
See also[]
- Prehistoric amphibian
- List of prehistoric amphibians
References[]
- ^ Liu, J.; Wang, Y. (2005). "The first complete mastodonsauroid skull from the Triassic of China: Yuanansuchus laticeps gen. et sp. nov". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 25 (3): 725–728. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0725:tfcmsf]2.0.co;2.
Categories:
- Capitosaurs
- Triassic temnospondyls of Asia
- Fossils of China
- Fossil taxa described in 2005
- Anisian life
- Anisian genus first appearances
- Anisian genus extinctions
- Prehistoric amphibian stubs