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