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Phaanthosaurus

Description

Phaanthosaurus is an extinct genus of basal procolophonid parareptile from early Triassic (Induan stage) deposits of Nizhnii Novgorod, Russian Federation. It is known from the holotype PIN 1025/1, a mandible (a dentary). It was collected from Vetluga River, Spasskoe village and referred to the Vokhmian terrestrial horizon of the Vokhma Formation. It was first named by P. K. Chudinov and B. P. Vjushkov in 1956 and the type species is Phaanthosaurus ignatjevi.


Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)4823655https://www.gbif.org/species/4823655
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)139875https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=139875
Rankgenus
Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Procolophonidae : Phaanthosaurus
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
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
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SauropsidaHuxley 1864
classReptiliaLaurenti 1768
subclassParareptiliaOlson 1947
-Procolophonomorpha
-Procolophonia
superfamilyProcolophonoideaRomer 1956
familyProcolophonidaeLydekker 1889
genusPhaanthosaurusChudinov & Vyushkov 1956
Scientific NamePhaanthosaurus Chudinov & Vyushkov, 1956
Name Published InDokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 108
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Phaanthosaurusgenusbelongs to Procolophonidaestated with evidenceChudinov and Vjushkov, 1956
Phaanthosaurusgenusbelongs to Spondylolestinaestated with evidenceSpencer and Benton, 2000
Phaanthosaurusgenusbelongs to SpondylolestidaeimpliedIvakhnenko, 2008
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)3
First Recorded Appearance252 - 251 Ma
Phanerozoic
Last Recorded Appearance252 - 251 Ma
Phanerozoic
Environmentterrestrial (based on Amniota)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)P. K. Chudinov and B. P. Vjushkov. 1956. Novye Dannye o Melkikh Kotilosavrakh iz Permi i Triasa SSSR [New Data on Small Cotylosaurs from the Permian and Triassic of the USSR]. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 108(3):547-550
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaanthosaurus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Contritosaurus simus
species
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
5252 Ma
Permian
252 Ma
Permian
Phaanthosaurus ignatjevi
species
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1252 Ma
Permian
252 Ma
Permian

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1956Phaanthosaurus Chudinov and Vjushkov p. 547
1974Phaanthosaurus Ivakhnenko p. 346
2000Phaanthosaurus Spencer and Benton p. 162
2008Phaanthosaurus Ivakhnenko p. 52

References

Chudinov P. K., Vjushkov B. P. (1956) Novye Dannye o Melkikh Kotilosavrakh iz Permi i Triasa SSSR [New Data on Small Cotylosaurs from the Permian and Triassic of the USSR], Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 108 3, 547-550
Ivakhnenko M. F. (1974) New Data of the Early Triassic Procolophonids of the USSR, Paleontological Journal 8 3, 346-351
Spencer P. S., Benton M. J. (2000) Procolophonids from the Permo-Triassic of Russia, The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 160-176
Ivakhnenko M. F. (2008) Podklass Parareptilia, Iskopaemye pozvonotchnye Rossii i sopredel'nykh stran: Iskopaemye reptilii i ptitsy, Tchast' 1 [Fossil vertebrates of Russia and adjacent countries: Fossil reptiles and birds, Part 1], GEOS, Moscow, 49-85
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
Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 108 - 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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