†Elachistosuchus huenei Janensch 1949 (lepidosaur)
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Reptilia - Eosuchia - Sphenodontidae
Diagnosis is revised form of Sobral et al. (2015)
Belongs to Elachistosuchus according to O. Kuhn 1971
See also Sobral et al. 2015
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MB.R. 4520, a partial skeleton (partial skeleton comprising a nearly complete but crushed skull, articulated posterior cervical and anterior dorsal vertebrae with rib fragments, right humerus,). Its type locality is Baerecke-Limpricht clay pit, Halberstadt (bed 18), which is in a Rhaetian floodplain claystone/sandstone in the Trossingen Formation of Germany.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baerecke-Limpricht clay pit, Halberstadt (bed 18)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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