Kapes komiensis Ivakhnenko 1975 (parareptile)

Reptilia - Parareptilia - Procolophonidae

Alternative combination: Macrophon komiensis

Full reference: M. F. Ivakhnenko. 1975. O Rodovom Sostave Rannetriasovykh Prokolofonid Priuralya [On the Genus Composition of Lower Triassic Procolophnids of the Pre-Urals]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 1975(1):88-93

Belongs to Kapes according to P. S. Spencer and G. W. Storrs 2002

See also Ivakhnenko 1975, Ivakhnenko 1976, Ivakhnenko 2008 and Spencer and Benton 2000

Sister taxa: Kapes amaenus, Kapes bentoni, Kapes majmesculae

Type specimen: PIN 3361/1 (pars?), a maxilla. Its type locality is Zheshart, which is in an Olenekian terrestrial horizon in the Yarenskian Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Zheshart

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