| Year | Name and Author |
|---|
| 1835 | Odontosaurus Meyer |
| 1835 | Odontosaurus voltzii Meyer |
| 1836 | Capitosaurus arenaceus Münster |
| 1845 | Odontosaurus Meyer p. 282 |
| 1855 | Xestorrhytias perrini Meyer |
| 1855 | Mastodonsaurus vaslenensis Meyer p. 136 |
| 1859 | Odontosaurus votzii Gervais p. 507 |
| 1861 | Labyrinthodon arenaceus Owen p. 216 |
| 1861 | Odontosaurus Owen p. 216 |
| 1861 | Odontosaurus voltzii Owen p. 216 |
| 1861 | Xestorrhytias perrini Owen p. 217 |
| 1876 | Labyrinthodon lavisi Seeley |
| 1885 | Mastodonsauridae Lydekker |
| 1902 | Mastodonsauridae Hay p. 423 |
| 1902 | Trochanterium Huene |
| 1902 | Trochanterium gaudryi Huene p. 20 |
| 1914 | Capitosaurus polaris Wiman |
| 1914 | Cyclotosaurus spitzbergensis Wiman p. 22 |
| 1919 | Capitosauridae Watson p. 67 |
| 1919 | Mastodonsauridae Watson p. 68 |
| 1925 | Capitosauridae Haughton p. 238 |
| 1932 | Capitosaurus bogdoanus Woodward |
| 1942 | Sassenisaurus spitzbergensis Nilsson p. 93 |
| Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698 |
| Münster G. Communications addressed to Professor Bronn, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde 1836, 580-581 |
| Meyer H. v. System der fossilen Saurier [Taxonomy of fossil saurians], Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefakten-Kunde 1845, 278-285 |
| Meyer H. v. , Zur Fauna der Vorwelt. Die Saurier des Muschelkalkes mit Rücksicht auf die Saurier aus Buntem Sandstein und Keuper [The Fauna of the Ancient World. The Saurians of the Muschelkalk with Regard to the Saurians of the Buntem Sandstone and Keuper], viii-167 |
| Gervais P. , Zoologie et Paléontologie Françaises. Nouvelles Recherches sur les Animaux Vertébrés dont on Trouve les Ossements Enfouis dans le Sol de la France et sur leur Comparaison aves les Espèces Propres aux Autres Régions du Globe (Deuxième Edition) [French Zoology and Paleontology. New Research on Vertebrate Animals Whose Bones Are Found Buried in the Soil of France and their Comparison with Species Specific to Other Regions of the Globe (Second Edition)], 544 |
| Owen R. , Palaeontology, or a Systematic Summary of Extinct Animals and their Geological Relations. Second Edition. Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh, 1-463 |
| Seeley H. G. On the posterior portion of a lower jaw of Labyrinthodon (L. Lavisi), from the Trias of Sidmouth, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 32, 278-284 |
| Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868 |
| Huene F. v. (1902) Übersicht über die Reptilien der Trias [Review of the Reptilia of the Triassic], Geologische und Paläontologische Abhandlungen (Neue Serie). Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena 6, 1-84 |
| Wiman C. (1914) Über die Stegocephalen aus der Trias Spitzbergens, Bulletin of the Geological Institutions of the University of Uppsala 13, 1-34 |
| 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 |
| Gall J.-C. (1971) Faunes et paysages du Grès à Voltzia du Nord des Vosges: Essai paléoécologique sur le Buntsandstein supérieur, Mémoires Service de la Carta Géologique d’Alsace et de Lorraine 34, 1-318 |
| Kuhn O. (1971) , Die Saurier der deutschen Trias [Reptiles of the German Triassic], 1-105 |
| Paton R. L. (1974) Capitosauroid labyrinthodonts from the Trias of England, Palaeontology 17 2, 253-289 |
| Chernin S. (1978) Three capitosaurs from the Triassic of South Africa: Parotosuchus africanus (Broom 1909); Kestrosaurus dreyeri Haughton 1925, and Parotosuchus dirus sp. nov., Palaeontologia africana 21, 79-100 |
| Warren A. A., Hutchinson M. N. (1988) A new capitosaurid amphibian from the early Triassic of Queensland, and the ontogeny of the capitosaur skull, Palaeontology 31 3, 857-876 |
| Schoch R. R. (1999) Comparative osteology of Mastodonsaurus giganteus (Jaeger, 1828) from the Middle Triassic (Lettenkeuper: Longobardian) of Germany (Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Thüringen), Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 278, 1-170 |
| Schoch R., Milner A. R. (2000) Stereospondyli, Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie - Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology 3B, 1-203 |
| Shishkin M. A., Novikov I. V., et al (2000) Permian and Triassic temnospondyls from Russia, The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 35-59 |
| 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. (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 |
| Damiani R. J., Rubidge B. S. (2003) A review of the South African temnospondyl amphibian record, Palaeontologia africana 39, 21-36 |
| Shishkin M. A., Rubidge B. S., et al (2004) Re-evaluation of Kestrosaurus Haughton, a capitosaurid temnospondyl amphibian from the Upper Beaufort Group of South Africa, Russian Journal of Herpetology 11 2, 121-138 |
| Moser M., Schoch R. (2007) Revision of the type material and nomenclature of Mastodonsaurus giganteus (Jaeger) (Temnospondyli) from the Middle Triassic of Germany, Palaeontology 50 5, 1245-1266 doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00705.x |
| Sulej T., Niedwiedzki G. (2011) A new large capitosaur temnospondyl amphibian from the Early Triassic of Poland, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica doi:10.4202/app.2011.0025 |
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