Tatrasuchus

Tatrasuchus is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian from the Middle Triassic of Poland. It is classified as a member of the family Cyclotosauridae[1] or Mastodonsauridae.[2] It is closely related to the genus Cyclotosaurus. The type species, Tatrasuchus kulczyckii, was named in 1996.[1] Damiani (2001) considered genus Kupferzellia Schoch (1997) from Middle Triassic of Germany to be a junior synonym of Tatrasuchus, and recombined its type species, K. wildi as the second species of Tatrasuchus.[2] This classification was followed by some authors, e.g. Fortuny et al. (2011);[3] other authors, e.g. Schoch (2008), maintain Tatrasuchus and Kupferzellia as distinct genera.[4]

Tatrasuchus
Temporal range: Middle Triassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Temnospondyli
Suborder: Stereospondyli
Clade: Capitosauria
Family: Mastodonsauridae
Genus: Tatrasuchus
Maryańska and Shishkin, 1996
Type species
Tatrasuchus kulczyckii
Maryańska and Shishkin, 1996

Phylogeny

Below is a cladogram from Fortuny et al. (2011):[3]

Stereospondyli

Lydekkerina huxleyi

Rhinesuchidae

Rhineceps nyasaensis

Uranocentrodon senekalensis

Capitosauria

Wetlugasaurus angustifrons

Odenwaldia heidelbergensis

Vladlenosaurus alexeyevi

Edingerella madagascariensis

Watsonisuchus spp.

Xenotosuchus africanus

Cherninia denwai

Paracyclotosaurus crookshanki

Stanocephalosaurus pronus

Stanocephalosaurus birdi

Procyclotosaurus stantonensis

Eocyclotosaurus spp.

Quasicyclotosaurus campi

Parotosuchus orenburgensis

Calmasuchus acri

Cyclotosaurus robustus

Tatrasuchus wildi

Eryosuchus garjainovi

Mastodonsaurus giganteus

Trematosauria

Benthosuchus sushkini

Trematosauroidea

Thoosuchus yakovlevi

Angusaurus spp.

Trematosaurus brauni

References

  1. Teresa Maryańska and Mikhail A. Shishkin (1996). "New cyclotosaurid (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) from the Middle Triassic of Poland and some problems of interrelationships of capitosauroids" (PDF). Prace Muzeum Ziemi. 43: 53–83.
  2. Ross J. Damiani (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.
  3. Fortuny, J.; Galobart, À.; Santisteban, C. D. (2011). "A New Capitosaur from the Middle Triassic of Spain and the Relationships within the Capitosauria" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 56 (3): 553. doi:10.4202/app.2010.0025.
  4. Rainer R. Schoch (2008). "The Capitosauria (Amphibia): characters, phylogeny, and stratigraphy" (PDF). Palaeodiversity. 1: 189–226.


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