Paracyclotosaurus crookshanki Mukherjee and Sengupta 1998 (tetrapod)

Amphibia - Temnospondyli

Alternative combinations: Parotosuchus crookshanki, Stanocephalosaurus crookshanki

Full reference: R. N. Mukherjee and D. P. Sengupta. 1998. New capitosaurid amphibians from the Triassic Denwa Formation of the Satpura Gondwana Basin, central India. Ameghiniana 22:317-327

Belongs to Paracyclotosaurus according to R. J. Damiani 2001

See also Schoch and Milner 2000

Sister taxa: Paracyclotosaurus davidi, Paracyclotosaurus morganorum

Type specimen: ISI A 55, a skull. Its type locality is 0.75 km SE of Sahavan, which is in an Anisian terrestrial horizon in the Denwa Formation of India.

Ecology: amphibious carnivore

Distribution: found only at 0.75 km SE of Sahavan

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