Laidleria gracilis Kitching 1957 (tetrapod)

Amphibia - Temnospondyli

Full reference: J. W. Kitching. 1957. A new small stereospondylus labyrinthodont from the Triassic beds of South Africa. Palaeontologia Africana 5:67-82

Belongs to Laidleria according to R. Schoch and A. R. Milner 2000

See also Damiani and Rubidge 2003, Kitching 1957 and Warren 1998

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: AM 4313, a partial skeleton (skull and anterior postcranial skeleton). Its type locality is Elucwecwe, which is in an Anisian terrestrial sandstone in the Burgersdorp Formation of South Africa.

Ecology: amphibious carnivore

Distribution: found only at Elucwecwe

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