Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Cyclotosauridae
Parent taxon: Capitosauroidea according to M. Marzola et al. 2017
See also Kuhn 1971, Schoch 2000 and Schoch and Milner 2000
Sister taxa: Antarctosuchus, Benthosuchidae, Bogdania fragmenta, Capitosauroides, Cyclotosaurus albertyni, Deltacephalidae, Eocyclotosaurus, Eryosuchidae, Eryosuchus, Mastodonsauridae, Mastodonsaurus, Mastodonsaurus silesiacus, Meyerosuchus, Odenwaldia, Paracyclotosauridae, Paracyclotosaurus, Parotosaurus turfanensis, Parotosuchidae, Parotosuchus, Rewanobatrachus, Yarengiidae, Mentosaurus, Promastodonsaurus, Heylerosauridae, Yarengia, Abiadisaurus
Subtaxa: Cyclotosaurinae Cyclotosaurus Heylerosaurinae Quasicyclotosaurus Stenotosaurinae
Ecology: amphibious carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Germany (18 collections), Greenland (1), Luxembourg (1), Poland (4), the Russian Federation (1), Thailand (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (2: Arizona)
Total: 30 collections including 33 occurrences