Tatrasuchus

Tatrasuchus
Temporal range: Middle Triassic
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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

Tatrasuchus is an extinct genus of temnospondyl from the Middle Triassic of Poland and Germany. 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 the 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] However, Schoch & Moreno (2024) synonymized the two genera, maintaining T. wildi as a distinct species from T. kulczyckii.[5]

Phylogeny

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

Stereospondyli

References

  1. ^ a b 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. ^ a b 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. ^ a b 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.
  5. ^ Schoch, Rainer R.; Moreno, Raphael (2024-05-31). "Synopsis on the temnospondyls from the German Triassic". Palaeodiversity. 17 (1). doi:10.18476/pale.v17.a2. ISSN 1867-6294.


Stub icon

This Temnospondyli-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.