Yuanansuchus

Extinct genus of temnospondyls

Yuanansuchus
Temporal range: Anisian
Holotype skull, Paleozoological Museum of China
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Temnospondyli
Suborder: Stereospondyli
Clade: Capitosauria
Family: Heylerosauridae
Genus: Yuanansuchus
Liu and Wang, 2005
Species
  • Y. laticeps Liu and Wang, 2005 (type)

Yuanansuchus is an extinct genus of mastodonsauroid temnospondyl. Fossils have been found from the Xinlingzhen formation in Yuan'an County, Hubei, China and date back to the Anisian stage of the Middle Triassic.[1]

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References

  1. ^ Liu, J.; Wang, Y. (2005). "The first complete mastodonsauroid skull from the Triassic of China: Yuanansuchus laticeps gen. et sp. nov". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 25 (3): 725–728. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0725:tfcmsf]2.0.co;2.
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Lapillopsidae
Rhinesuchidae
Lydekkerinidae
Capitosauria
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Chigutisauridae
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Plagiosauridae
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Taxon identifiers
Yuanansuchus


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