Godavarisaurus

Godavarisaurus
Temporal range: Early Jurassic
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Rhynchocephalia
Suborder: Sphenodontia
Genus: †Godavarisaurus
Evans et al., 2001
Type species
†G. lateefi
Evans et al., 2001[1]

Godavarisaurus is an extinct genus of sphenodontian reptile from the Early-Middle Jurassic Kota Formation of Andhra Pradesh, India. It is known from jaw fragments (including the maxilla, premaxilla, and parts of the dentary). It was a small sphenodontian, with the skull estimated to be less than 2 centimetres (0.79 in) long.[1] It is generally considered to be a relatively basal sphenodontian that lies outside Eusphenodontia.[2]

Cladogram following Sues and Schoch, 2023:[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Evans, S. E.; Prasad, G. V. R.; Manhas, B. K. (2001). "Rhynchocephalians (Diapsida: Lepidosauria) from the Jurassic Kota Formation of India". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 133 (3): 309–334. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2001.tb00629.x.
  2. ^ Anantharaman, S.; DeMar, David G.; Sivakumar, R.; Dassarma, Dilip Chandra; Wilson Mantilla, Gregory P.; Wilson Mantilla, Jeffrey A. (2022-06-30). "First rhynchocephalian (Reptilia, Lepidosauria) from the Cretaceous–Paleogene of India". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 42 (1). doi:10.1080/02724634.2022.2118059. ISSN 0272-4634.
  3. ^ Sues, Hans-Dieter; Schoch, Rainer R. (2023-11-07). "The oldest known rhynchocephalian reptile from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) of Germany and its phylogenetic position among Lepidosauromorpha". The Anatomical Record. doi:10.1002/ar.25339. ISSN 1932-8486. PMID 37937325. S2CID 265050255.


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