Alternative combination: Rhynchosaurus articeps
Full reference: R. Owen. 1842. Description of an Extinct Lacertilian Reptile, Rhynchosaurus articeps, Owen, of which the Bones and Foot-prints characterize the Upper New Red Sandstone at Grinshill, near Shrewsbury. Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 7(3):355-369
Belongs to Rhynchosauroides according to G. Tresise 2003
See also Demathieu and Haubold 1972, Owen 1842, Owen 1859, Owen 1861, Seeley 1869 and Swinton 1934
Sister taxa: Rhynchosauroides beasleyi, Rhynchosauroides bornemanni, Rhynchosauroides brevidigitatus, Rhynchosauroides gangresci, Rhynchosauroides hyperbates, Rhynchosauroides kuletae, Rhynchosauroides majus, Rhynchosauroides maximus, Rhynchosauroides minutipes, Rhynchosauroides pallinii, Rhynchosauroides petri, Rhynchosauroides pusillus, Rhynchosauroides rdzaneki, Rhynchosauroides rectipes, Rhynchosauroides retroversipes, Rhynchosauroides santanderensis, Rhynchosauroides sphaerodactylus, Rhynchosauroides tirolicus, Rhynchosauroides triangulus, Rhynchosauroides virgiliae, Rhynchocephalichnus franconicus, Rhynchocephalichnus etruscus, Rhynchocephalichnus pisanus, Akropus schochardti
Type specimen: SHRBM G132/1982 (lectotype, designated by Benton, 1990), a partial skull (nearly complete skull and mandible). Its type locality is Grinshill quarries, which is in an Anisian paralic sandstone/sandstone in the Tarporley Siltstone Formation of the United Kingdom.
Distribution:
• Triassic of the United Kingdom (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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