Yuanansuchus

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Yuanansuchus
Temporal range: Anisian
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Holotype skull, Paleozoological Museum of China
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order:† Temnospondyli
Suborder:† Stereospondyli
Clade:† Capitosauria
Family:† Heylerosauridae
Genus:† Yuanansuchus
Liu and Wang, 2005
Species
  • Y. laticepsLiu and Wang, 2005 (type)

Yuanansuchus is an extinct genus of mastodonsauroid temnospondyl. Fossils have been found from the Xinlingzhen formation in Yuan'an County, Hubei, China and date back to the Anisian stage of the Middle Triassic. [1]

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References

  1. ↑ Liu, J.; Wang, Y. (2005). "The first complete mastodonsauroid skull from the Triassic of China: Yuanansuchus laticeps gen. et sp. nov". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 25 (3): 725–728. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0725:tfcmsf]2.0.co;2.


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