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Heylerosauridae ✝

Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)170524https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=170524
Rankfamily (PBDB)
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Temnospondyli : Heylerosauridae
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
-CapitosauriaYates and Warren 2000
-Capitosauroidea
familyHeylerosauridaeShishkin 1980
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Heylerosauridaefamilybelongs to Mastodonsauroideastated with evidenceDamiani, 2001
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)6
First Recorded Appearance251 - 242 Ma
Triassic
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)J. Liu and Y. Wang. 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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Rhadalognathus
genus
listed (PBDB)1247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
Yuanansuchus
genus
listed (PBDB)2247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1971Wellesaurus bussoni Lehman p. 8
1980Heylerosauridae Shishkin
1984Eocyclotosauridae Morales and Kamphausen
2001Heylerosauridae Damiani p. 392
2005Heylerosauridae Liu and Wang

References

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
Lehman J.-P. (1971) Nouveaux vertebres fossiles du Trias de la Serie de Zarzaitine, Annales de Paleontologie 57, 71-116
Damiani R. J. (2001) A systematic revision and phylogenetic analysis of Triassic mastodonsauroids (Temnospondyli: Stereospondyli), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 133 4, 379-482 doi:10.1006/zjls.2001.0304
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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