Trematosaurus
| Trematosaurus Temporal range: Early Triassic | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Temnospondyli |
| Superfamily: | Trematosauroidea |
| Family: | Trematosauridae |
| Genus: | Trematosaurus Burmeister, 1849 |
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Trematosaurus is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian found in Germany and Russia.[1] It was first named by Hermann Burmeister in 1849 and the type species is Trematosaurus brauni.[1]
Species
Valid species
T. brauni
- The type species, Trematosaurus brauni (Burmeister, 1849) is known from the middle member of variegated sandstone in the vicinity of Bernburg, Germany.
- T. galae (Novikov, 2010) is known from fragmentary specimens found in Lower Triassic Donskaya Luka locality (Volgograd Region), Russia.
Reclassified species
- T. fuchsi (Seidlitz, 1920) is known from the same stratigraphic level of German Basin, Thuringia. It is a junior synonym of T. brauni.
- T. thuringiensis (Werneburg, 1993) is also known from Thuringia.
- T. madagascariensis (Lehman, 1966) referred by Schoch & Milner, 2000, to Tertremoides (Lehman, 1979).
- South African T. kannemeyeri (Broom, 1909), described based on a skull fragment, most likely belongs to the genus Aphaneramma or a closely related lonchorhynchine.
- Another South African species, T. sobeyi (Haughton, 1915), was assigned to its own genus Trematosuchus (Watson, 1919).
- East European trematosaurid remains referred to Trematosaurus in fact belong to the genus Inflectosaurus Shishkin, 1960 (Novikov, 2007).
References
- 1 2 I. V. Novikov (2010). "New data on trematosauroid labyrinthodonts of Eastern Europe: 2. Trematosaurus galae sp. nov.: Cranial morphology". Paleontological Journal. 44 (4): 457–467. doi:10.1134/S003103011004012X.
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