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Calyptosuchus wellesi ✝

Description

Calyptosuchus (meaning "covered crocodile") is an extinct genus of crurotarsan from the Late Triassic of North America. As an aetosaur, it was heavily armored and had a pig-like snout used to uproot plants.


From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calyptosuchus_wellesi, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.
Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)9236191https://www.gbif.org/species/9236191
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)69072https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=69072
Rankspecies
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Thecodontia : Aetosauridae : Calyptosuchus : Calyptosuchus wellesi
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Eosuchia : Stagonolepididae : Calyptosuchus : Calyptosuchus wellesi
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
subclassEureptilia
-RomeriidaGauthier et al. 1988
-Diapsida
-Eosuchia
-NeodiapsidaBenton 1985
-SauriaGauthier 1984
-Archosauromorpha
-CrocopodaEzcurra 2016
-ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
-EucrocopodaEzcurra 2016
-Archosauria
-Pseudosuchia
-SuchiaKrebs 1974
-Aetosauria
-Stagonolepididae
suborderDesmatosuchiaCase 1920
subfamilyDesmatosuchinaeHuene 1942
genusCalyptosuchusLong and Ballew 1985
speciesCalyptosuchus wellesiLong & Ballew 1985
Generic NameCalyptosuchus
Scientific NameCalyptosuchus wellesi (Long & Ballew, 1985)
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Calyptosuchus wellesispeciesbelongs to CalyptosuchusimpliedLong and Ballew, 1985
Calyptosuchus wellesispeciesbelongs to StagonolepisimpliedMurry and Long, 1989
Calyptosuchus wellesispeciesbelongs to Stagonolepisstated with evidenceLong and Murry, 1995
Calyptosuchus wellesispeciesbelongs to StagonolepisimpliedIrmis, 2005
Calyptosuchus wellesispeciesbelongs to Calyptosuchusstated with evidenceDesojo et al., 2013
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)1
First Recorded Appearance237 - 228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
Last Recorded Appearance228 - 209 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
Environmentterrestrial (based on Diapsida)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)
Dietherbivore (based on Aetosauria)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)R. A. Long and K. L. Ballew. 1985. Aetosaur dermal armor from the Late Triassic of southwestern North America, with special reference to material from the Chinle Formation of Petrified Forest National Park. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 54:45-68
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calyptosuchus_wellesi

Fossil Distribution

Obsolete Names

NameSourceTaxon RankTaxonomy
Stagonolepis wellesi (Long & Ballew, 1985)GBIFspeciesAnimalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Thecodontia : Aetosauridae : Calyptosuchus : Stagonolepis wellesi
Acompsosaurus wingatensis Mehl, 1915GBIFspeciesAnimalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Thecodontia : Aetosauridae : Calyptosuchus : Acompsosaurus wingatensis

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1915Acompsosaurus wingatensis Mehl p. 735
1985Calyptosuchus wellesi Long and Ballew
1989Stagonolepis wellesi Murry and Long
1995Stagonolepis wellesi Long and Murry p. 82
2005Stagonolepis wellesi Irmis p. 77
2013Calyptosuchus wellesi Desojo et al.
2016Calyptosuchus wellesi Parker

References

Long R. A., Ballew K. L. (1985) Aetosaur dermal armor from the Late Triassic of southwestern North America, with special reference to material from the Chinle Formation of Petrified Forest National Park, Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 54, 45-68
Long R. A., Murry P. A. (1995) Late Triassic (Carnian and Norian) tetrapods from the southwestern United States, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 4, 1-254
Irmis R. B. (2005) The vertebrate fauna of the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation in northern Arizona, In S. J. Nesbitt, W. G. Parker, & R. B. Irmis (eds.), Guidebook to the Triassic Formations of the Colorado Plateau in Northern Arizona: Geology, Paleontology, and History. Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin 9, 63-88
Desojo J. B., Heckert A. B., et al (2013) Aetosauria: a clade of armoured pseudosuchians from the Upper Triassic continental beds, Anatomy, Phylogeny and Palaeobiology of Early Archosaurs and their Kin. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 379, 203-239
Parker W. G. (2016) Revised phylogenetic analysis of the Aetosauria (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia); assessing the effects of incongruent morphological character sets, PeerJ 4, e1583
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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