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Batrachosuchus ✝

Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)150350https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=150350
Rankgenus (PBDB)
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Temnospondyli : Brachyopidae : Batrachosuchus
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-Temnospondyli
-EutemnospondyliSchoch 2013
-Rhachitomi
-EryopiformesSchoch 2013
-StereospondylomorphaYates and Warren 2000
-Stereospondyli
-TrematosauriaYates and Warren 2000
familyBrachyopidaeBroom 1915
genusBatrachosuchusBroom 1903
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Batrachosuchusgenusbelongs to Rhachitomistated without evidenceBroom, 1903
Batrachosuchusgenusbelongs to Brachyopidaestated without evidenceBroom, 1915
Batrachosuchusgenusbelongs to Brachyopidaestated with evidenceWatson, 1919
Batrachosuchusgenusbelongs to Brachyopidaestated without evidenceHaughton, 1925
Batrachosuchusgenusbelongs to Brachyopidaestated with evidenceWarren and Marsicano, 1998
Batrachosuchusgenusbelongs to Brachyopidaestated without evidenceDamiani and Rubidge, 2003
Batrachosuchusgenusbelongs to Brachyopidaestated with evidenceSchoch and Milner, 2014
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)4
First Recorded Appearance252 - 247 Ma
Phanerozoic
Last Recorded Appearance247 - 242 Ma
Triassic
Environmentbrackish,freshwater,terrestrial (based on Tetrapoda)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Temnospondyli)
Dietcarnivore (based on Temnospondyli)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)R. Broom. 1903. On a new Stegocephalian (Batrachosuchus browni) from the Karroo Beds of Aliwal North, South Africa. Geological Magazine, New Series, Decade IV 10(11):499-501

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Batrachosuchus browni ✝
species		listed (PBDB)1247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic		247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
Batrachosuchus concordi ✝
species		listed (PBDB)1247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic		247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
Blinasaurus henwoodi ✝
species		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		2252 Ma
Permian		252 Ma
Permian

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1903Batrachosuchus Broom p. 501 figs. 1, 2
1915Batrachosuchus Broom p. 365
1919Batrachosuchus Watson p. 68
1925Batrachosuchus Haughton p. 256
1998Batrachosuchus Warren and Marsicano p. 338
2000Batrachosuchus Warren and Marsicano p. 465
2000Batrachosuchus Yates and Warren pp. 84, 104 fig. 1
2003Batrachosuchus Damiani and Rubidge p. 23
2013Batrachosuchus Schoch
2014Batrachosuchus Schoch and Milner p. 101

References

Broom R. (1903) On a new Stegocephalian (Batrachosuchus browni) from the Karroo Beds of Aliwal North, South Africa, Geological Magazine, New Series, Decade IV 10 11, 499-501
Broom R. (1915) On the Triassic stegocephalians, Brachyops, Bothriceps, and Lydekkerina, gen. nov., Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1915, 363-368
Watson D. M. S. (1919) The structure, evolution and origin of the Amphibia.—The "orders" Rachitomi and Stereospondyli, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 209, 1-73
Haughton S. H. (1925) Investigations in South African fossil reptiles and amphibians (Part 13), Annals of the South African Museum 22, 227-261
Warren A., Marsicano C. (1998) Revision of the Brachyopidae (Temnospondyli) from the Triassic of the Sydney, Carnarvon and Tasmania Basins, Australia, Alcheringa 22, 329-342
Warren A., Marsicano C. (2000) A phylogeny of the Brachyopoidea (Temnospondyli, Stereospondyli), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20, 462-483
Yates A. M., Warren A. (2000) The phylogeny of the ‘higher’ temnospondyls (Vertebrata: Choanata) and its implications for the monophyly and origins of the Stereospondyli, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 128 1, 77-121
Damiani R. J., Rubidge B. S. (2003) A review of the South African temnospondyl amphibian record, Palaeontologia africana 39, 21-36
Schoch R. R. (2013) The evolution of major temnospondyl clades: an inclusive phylogenetic analysis, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology doi:10.1080/14772019.2012.699006
Schoch R. R., Milner A. R. (2014) Handbook of Paleoherpetology Part 3A2 Temnospondyli I
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
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