Prionosuchus plummeri Price 1948 (tetrapod)

Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Archegosauridae

Belongs to Prionosuchus according to R. Schoch and A. R. Milner 2000

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: DGM 320-R, a partial skull. Its type locality is Pastos Bons, Maranhao, which is in a Kungurian fluvial-lacustrine horizon in the Lower Pedra de Fogo Formation of Brazil.

Ecology: amphibious carnivore

Distribution: found only at Pastos Bons, Maranhao

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