Yuanansuchus laticeps Liu and Wang 2005 (tetrapod)

Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Heylerosauridae

Full reference: J. Liu and Y. Wang. 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

Belongs to Yuanansuchus according to J. Liu and Y. Wang 2005

Sister taxon: Yuanansuchus maopingchangensis

Type specimen: IVPP V 13463, a skull (Nearly complete skull). Its type locality is Maopingchang, which is in an Anisian coastal horizon in the Xinlingzhen Formation of China.

Ecology: amphibious carnivore

Distribution: found only at Maopingchang

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