Meyerosuchus
Temporal range: Early Triassic
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: †Temnospondyli
Suborder: †Stereospondyli
Clade: †Capitosauria
Family: †Stenotosauridae
Genus: †Meyerosuchus
Ochev, 1966
Species
  • †M. fuerstenberganus (Meyer, 1855) (type)

Meyerosuchus is an extinct genus of mastodonsauroidean temnospondyl. Fossils have been found from the Early Triassic Hardegsen Formation in southern Germany. Meyerosuchus is present in late Olenekian deposits of the Middle Buntsandstein.[1] The type species M. fuerstenberganus was named in 1966, although remains have been known since 1855.[2] Meyerosuchus is closely related to Stenotosaurus; both genera are grouped in the family Stenotosauridae and the two genera may even be synonymous.[3]

References

  1. ^ Schoch, R.R. (2011). "How diverse is the temnospondyl fauna in the Lower Triassic of southern Germany?". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 261 (1): 49–60. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2011/0147.
  2. ^ Borsuk-Bialynicka, M.; Cook, E.; Evans, S.E.; Maryańska, T. (1999). "A microvertebrate assemblage from the Early Triassic of Poland". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 44 (2): 167–188.
  3. ^ Lucas, S.G.; Schoch, R.R. (2002). "Triassic temnospondyl biostratigraphy, biochronology and correlation of the German Buntsandstein and North American Moenkopi Formation". Lethaia. 35 (2): 97–106. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.2002.tb00071.x.


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