Reptilia - Rhynchosauria - Rhynchosauridae
Full reference: D. Mukherjee and S. Ray. 2015. A new Hyperodapedon (Archosauromorpha, Rhynchosauria) from the upper Triassic of India: implications for rhynchosaur phylogeny. Palaeontology 57(6):1241-1276
Belongs to Hyperodapedon according to D. Mukherjee and S. Ray 2015
Sister taxa: Cephalonia lotziana, Hyperodapedon gordoni, Hyperodapedon huenei, Hyperodapedon huxleyi, Hyperodapedon mariensis, Hyperodapedon sanjuanensis, Hyperodapedon stockleyi, Scaphonyx, Scaphonyx australis, Scaphonyx fischeri
Type specimen: ITKGPR36, a maxilla (complete left maxillary tooth plate). Its type locality is rhynchosaur bonebed, Tiki village, which is in a Carnian dry floodplain mudstone in the Tiki Formation of India.
Ecology: herbivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of India (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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