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Stenotosaurus

Description

Stenotosaurus is an extinct genus of capitosaurian temnospondyl within the family Mastodonsauridae. It is known from three species, all of which lived during the Anisian stage of the Middle Triassic. Fossils have been found in England and Germany.


Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)8467225https://www.gbif.org/species/8467225
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)170672https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=170672
Rankgenus
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Amphibia : Mastodonsauridae : Stenotosaurus
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Temnospondyli : Mastodonsauridae : Stenotosaurus
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
-Temnospondyli
-EutemnospondyliSchoch 2013
-Rhachitomi
-EryopiformesSchoch 2013
-StereospondylomorphaYates and Warren 2000
-Stereospondyli
-CapitosauriaYates and Warren 2000
-Capitosauroidea
familyMastodonsauridaeLydekker 1885
genusStenotosaurusRomer 1947
Scientific NameStenotosaurus Romer, 1947
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Stenotosaurusgenusbelongs to Capitosauridaestated with evidenceIngavat and Janvier, 1981
Stenotosaurusgenusbelongs to Stenotosaurinaestated with evidenceSchoch and Milner, 2000
Stenotosaurusgenusbelongs to Mastodonsauridaestated with evidenceDamiani, 2001
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)4
First Recorded Appearance251 - 242 Ma
Triassic
Last Recorded Appearance237 - 201 Ma
Mesozoic
Environmentbrackish,freshwater,terrestrial (based on Tetrapoda)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Temnospondyli)
Dietcarnivore (based on Temnospondyli)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)D. Kamphausen. 1983. Stenotosaurus gracilis, ein neuer Capitosauride (Stegocephalia) aus den Unteren Röttonen Oberfrankens. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 1983(2):119-128
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenotosaurus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Capitosaurus semiclausus
species
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1251 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
251 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
Capitosaurus stantonensis
species
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1237 Ma
Middle Triassic
237 Ma
Middle Triassic
Stenotosaurus gracilis
species
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1947Stenotosaurus Romer
1981Stenotosaurus Ingavat and Janvier p. 718 fig. 6
1983Stenotosaurus Kamphausen
2000Stenotosaurus Schoch and Milner p. 149
2001Stenotosaurus Damiani

References

Kamphausen D. (1983) Stenotosaurus gracilis, ein neuer Capitosauride (Stegocephalia) aus den Unteren Röttonen Oberfrankens, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 1983 2, 119-128
Schoch R., Milner A. R. (2000) Stereospondyli, Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie - Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology 3B, 1-203
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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