Parotosaurus orenburgensis Konzhukova 1968 (tetrapod)

Amphibia - Temnospondyli

Belongs to Parotosaurus according to Konzhukova 1968

See also Schoch and Milner 2000 and Sennikov 2005

Sister taxa: Parotosaurus panteleevi, Parotosuchus helgolandicus, Parotosuchus komiensis, Parotosuchus nasutus, Parotosuchus orenburgensis, Parotosuchus orientalis, Parotosuchus ptaszynskii, Parotosuchus sequester, Parotosuchus speleus

Type specimen: PIN 951/42, a skull. Its type locality is Rassypnaya locality, PIN 951, which is in an Olenekian terrestrial sandstone/sandstone in the Petropavlovka Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology: amphibious carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Parotosaurus orenburgensis in the database

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