Trematosaurus

Trematosaurus
Temporal range: Early Triassic
T. brauni skull
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Temnospondyli
Superfamily: Trematosauroidea
Family: Trematosauridae
Genus: Trematosaurus
Species
  • T. brauni Burmeister, 1849 (type)
  • T. galae Novikov, 2010

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

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. 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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