Osteichthyes - Cotylosauria - Stephanospondylidae

Alternative combination: Phanerosaurus pugnax

Full reference: H. B. Geinitz and J. V. Deichmüller. 1882. Die Saurier der unteren Dyas von Sachsen [Saurians from the Lower Dyas of Saxony]. Palaeontographica 9:1-46

Belongs to Stephanospondylus according to R. Kissel 2010

See also Carroll et al. 1972

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Niederhaslich, which is in a Sakmarian lacustrine limestone in the Niederhäslich-Schweinsdorf Formation of Germany

Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Niederhaslich

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