Reptilia - Rhynchosauria - Rhynchosauridae
Synonyms: Cephalonia Huene 1940, Macrocephalosaurus Tupi-Caldas 1933, Paradapedon Huene 1938, Stenometopon Boulenger 1903, Supradapedon Chatterjee 1980
Parent taxon: Hyperodapedontinae according to M. D. Ezcurra et al. 2016
See also Benton 1983, Benton 1985, Carroll 1988, Cope 1870, Huene 1940, Huene 1942, Huene 1942, Langer et al. 2000, Langer and Schultz 2000, Mukherjee and Ray 2015 and Schultz et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Isalorhynchus, Oryctorhynchus, Otischalkia, Scaphonyx africanus, Teyumbaita
Subtaxa: Cephalonia lotziana Hyperodapedon gordoni Hyperodapedon huenei Hyperodapedon huxleyi Hyperodapedon mariensis Hyperodapedon sanjuanensis Hyperodapedon stockleyi Hyperodapedon tikiensis Scaphonyx Scaphonyx australis Scaphonyx fischeri
Ecology: herbivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Argentina (3 collections), Brazil (23), Canada (1: Nova Scotia), India (11), Tanzania (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (1: Wyoming), Zimbabwe (3)
Total: 46 collections including 51 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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