Trucheosaurus
Trucheosaurus is an extinct genus of rhytidosteid temnospondyl from the Late Permian period of the Sydney Basin, New South Wales, Australia. It is known from the holotype materials MMF 12697a, a partially complete skull, AMF 50977, an articulated postcranial skeleton and BMNHR 3728, the counterpart of both skull and postcranial skeleton, recovered from the Glen Davis Formation. This genus was named by Watson in 1956, and the type species is Trucheosaurus major.[1]
| Trucheosaurus Temporal range: Late Permian | |
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| Restoration of Trucheosaurus major | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Temnospondyli |
| Suborder: | †Stereospondyli |
| Family: | †Rhytidosteidae |
| Genus: | †Trucheosaurus Watson, 1956 |
| Type species | |
| †Trucheosaurus major (Woodward, 1909 [originally Bothriceps major) | |
Phylogeny
Below is a cladogram from Dias-da-Silva and Marsicano (2011):[2]
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References
- Watson, D. M. S. (1956). "The brachyopid labyrinthodonts". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology. 2: 317–391.
- Dias-da-Silva, S.; Marsicano, C. (2011). "Phylogenetic reappraisal of Rhytidosteidae (Stereospondyli: Trematosauria), temnospondyl amphibians from the Permian and Triassic". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 9 (2): 305–325. doi:10.1080/14772019.2010.492664.
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