Thoosuchus Efremov 1940 (tetrapod)

Amphibia - Temnospondyli

Full reference: J. A. Efremov. 1940. Predvaritel'noye opisaniye novykh form permskoy i triasovoy fauny nazemnykh pozvonochnykh SSSR [Preliminary description of new forms from the Permian and Triassic terrestrial vertebrate fauna of the USSR]. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta Akademiy Nauk SSSR 10(2):1-140

Parent taxon: Trematosauroidea according to R. J. Damiani and A. M. Yates 2003

See also Carroll 1988, Efremov 1940, Novikov 2007 and Yates and Warren 2000

Sister taxa: Almasauridae, Calamops, Callistomordax, Gonioglyptus huxleyi, Indolyrocephalus, Indolyrocephalus panchetensis, Lyrocephaliscidae, Metoposauridae, Peltostega, Platystegidae, Trematosauridae, Wetlugasauridae

Subtaxa: Thoosuchus abbasovi Thoosuchus acutirostris Thoosuchus tardus Thoosuchus tuberculatus Thoosuchus yakovlevi

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Ecology: amphibious carnivore

Distribution:

• Triassic of the Russian Federation (17 collections)

Total: 17 collections each including a single occurrence

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