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Kestrosaurus ✝

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Kestrosaurus, occasionally misspelt as Kerstisaurus, is an extinct genus of Triassic capitosauroid temnospondyl amphibian within the family Mastodonsauridae.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kestrosaurus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4815872	https://www.gbif.org/species/4815872
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	37098	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=37098

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Amphibia : Mastodonsauridae : Kestrosaurus

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Temnospondyli : Mastodonsauridae : Kestrosaurus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

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
-	Capitosauria	Yates and Warren 2000
-	Capitosauroidea
family	Mastodonsauridae	Lydekker 1885
genus	Kestrosaurus	Haughton 1926

Scientific Name

Kestrosaurus Haughton, 1926

Name Published In

Ann. S. Afric. Mus., 22

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Kestrosaurus	genus	belongs to Capitosauridae	stated without evidence	Haughton, 1925
Kestrosaurus	genus	belongs to Capitosauridae	stated with evidence	Welles and Cosgriff, 1965
Kestrosaurus	genus	belongs to Capitosauridae	stated without evidence	Chernin, 1978
Kestrosaurus	genus	belongs to Capitosauridae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Kestrosaurus	genus	belongs to Parotosuchidae	stated with evidence	Schoch and Milner, 2000
Kestrosaurus	genus	nomen dubium Mastodonsauridae	stated with evidence	Damiani, 2001
Kestrosaurus	genus	nomen dubium Mastodonsauridae	stated without evidence	Damiani and Rubidge, 2003
Kestrosaurus	genus	belongs to Capitosauridae	stated with evidence	Shishkin et al., 2004

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

251 - 247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic

Last Recorded Appearance

251 - 247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic

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)

R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kestrosaurus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Kestrosaurus dreyeri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Kestrosaurus kitchingi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Karoosuchus Ochev, 1960	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Amphibia : Mastodonsauridae : *Karoosuchus*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1925	Kestrosaurus Haughton
1960	Karoosuchus Ochev
1965	Kestrosaurus Welles and Cosgriff p. 59
1978	Kestrosaurus Chernin
1988	Kestrosaurus Carroll
2000	Kestrosaurus Schoch and Milner p. 140
2004	Kestrosaurus Shishkin et al. p. 125

References

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

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

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

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

GBIF/Paleo Database - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Ann. S. Afric. Mus., 22 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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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