Biology:Promastodonsaurus

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Short description: Extinct genus of amphibians

Promastodonsaurus
Temporal range: Carnian
~231.7–225 Ma
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Temnospondyli
Suborder: Stereospondyli
Clade: Capitosauria
Family: Mastodonsauridae
Genus: Promastodonsaurus
Bonaparte 1963
Type species
Promastodonsaurus bellmani
Bonaparte 1963

Promastodonsaurus ("before Mastodonsaurus") is an extinct genus of capitosauroid temnospondyls within the family Mastodonsauridae.[1] Fossils of the genus were found in the Ischigualasto Formation of the Ischigualasto-Villa Unión Basin in northwestern Argentina.[2]

References

  1. Bonaparte, J.F (1963). "Promastodonsaurus bellmanni n. gen. et n. sp., capitosa urido del Triasico medio de Argentina (Stereospondyli, Capitosauroidea)". Ameghiniana 3: 67–78. 
  2. Martínez et al., 2013

Bibliography

  • Martínez, Ricardo N.; Cecilia Apaldetti; Oscar A. Alcober; Carina E. Colombi; Paul C. Sereno; Eliana Fernández; Paula Santi Malnis; Gustavo A. Correa, and Diego Abelin. 2013. Vertebrate succession in the Ischigualasto Formation. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 12: Basal sauropodomorphs and the vertebrate fossil record of the Ischigualasto Formation (Late Triassic: Carnian-Norian) of Argentina. 10–30.

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