Tatrasuchus_wildi

<i>Tatrasuchus</i>

Tatrasuchus

Extinct genus of temnospondyls

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]

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Phylogeny

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

Stereospondyli

References

  1. [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. [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. [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. [4]
    Rainer R. Schoch (2008). "The Capitosauria (Amphibia): characters, phylogeny, and stratigraphy" (PDF). Palaeodiversity. 1: 189–226.
  5. [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.


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