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Rhinesuchidae ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	37065	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=37065

Rank

family (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Temnospondyli : Rhinesuchidae

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Temnospondyli
-	Eutemnospondyli	Schoch 2013
-	Rhachitomi
-	Eryopiformes	Schoch 2013
-	Stereospondylomorpha	Yates and Warren 2000
-	Stereospondyli
family	Rhinesuchidae	Watson 1919

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Rhinesuchidae	family	belongs to Rachitomi	stated with evidence	Watson, 1919
Rhinesuchidae	family	subjective synonym of Sclerothoracidae	stated with evidence	Kuhn, 1971
Rhinesuchidae	family	belongs to Rhinesuchoidea	implied	Carroll, 1988
Rhinesuchidae	family	belongs to Stereospondyli	stated with evidence	Schoch and Milner, 2000
Rhinesuchidae	family	belongs to Stereospondyli	stated without evidence	Damiani and Rubidge, 2003
Rhinesuchidae	family	belongs to Stereospondyli	stated with evidence	Schoch, 2013

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

279 - 272 Ma
Permian

Last Recorded Appearance

252 - 247 Ma
Phanerozoic

Environment

brackish,freshwater,terrestrial (based on Tetrapoda)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Temnospondyli)

Diet

carnivore (based on Temnospondyli)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

D. M. S. Watson. 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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Broomistega ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	3	252 Ma Permian	252 Ma Permian
Laccosaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Rhineceps ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Rhinesuchoides ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	4	265 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Rhinesuchus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	10	265 Ma Permian	252 Ma Permian
Uranocentrodon ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Australerpetinae ✝ unranked clade	listed (PBDB)	2	269 Ma Permian	269 Ma Permian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1885	Gondwanosaurus Lydekker
1885	Gondwanosaurus bijoriensis Lydekker
1890	Eryops africanus Lydekker
1890	Eryops oweni Lydekker
1919	Rhinesuchidae Watson p. 65
1925	Rhinesuchus africanus Haughton p. 230
1945	Phrynosuchidae Romer
1946	Rhinesuchidae Kuhn p. 52
1947	Uranocentrodontidae Romer

Year	Name and Author
1966	Rhinecepidae Ochev
1966	Uranocentrodon madagascarensis Ochev
1988	Gondwanosaurus Carroll
1988	Rhinesuchidae Carroll
2000	Rhinesuchidae Schoch and Milner p. 70
2000	Rhinesuchidae Yates and Warren pp. 84, 95 fig. 1
2003	Rhinesuchidae Damiani and Rubidge p. 29
2013	Rhinesuchidae Schoch

References

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

Kuhn O. (1946) Das System der fossilen und rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien [The system of fossil and recent amphibians and reptiles], Bericht der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bamberg 29, 49-67

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Schoch R., Milner A. R. (2000) Stereospondyli, Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie - Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology 3B, 1-203

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

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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