Reptilia - Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
Alternative combinations: Belodon caroliniensis, Phytosaurus carolinensis
Full reference: E. Emmons. 1856. Geological Report of the Midland Counties of North Carolina xx-351
Belongs to Rutiodon according to M. R. Stocker and R. J. Butler 2013
See also Colbert and Chafee 1941, Doyle and Sues 1995, Emmons 1856, Emmons 1857, Gregory 1962, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hunt and Lucas 1989, Long and Murry 1995, Lyman 1894 and Stocker 2010
Sister taxa: Palaeonornis, Palaeonornis struthionoides
Type specimen: Williams College uncat., now USNM 214513, a partial skeleton (Five teeth, vertebral centrum, vertebrae and ribs, neural spine, fragment of interclavicle). Its type locality is New Egypt coal mine, which is in a Norian terrestrial horizon in the Cumnock Formation of North Carolina.
Distribution:
• Triassic of United States (4: New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
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