Almasaurus Dutuit 1972 (tetrapod)

Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Almasauridae

Full reference: J.-M. Dutuit. 1972. Découverte d'un Dinosaure ornithischien dans le Trias supérieur de l'Atlas occidental marocain [Discovery of an ornithischian dinosaur in the Upper Triassic of the Moroccan western Atlas]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Série D 275:2841-2844

Parent taxon: Almasauridae according to R. Schoch and A. R. Milner 2000

See also Carroll 1988, Warren and Black 1985 and Yates and Warren 2000

Sister taxa: Latiscopus, Latiscopus disjunctus

Subtaxa: Almasaurus habbazi

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Ecology: amphibious carnivore

Distribution: found only at Locality XI, Alili n'yifis, Alma (Triassic of Morocco)

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