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Paracyclotosaurus crookshanki

Amphibia - Temnospondyli

Taxonomy
Parotosuchus crookshanki was named by Mukherjee and Sengupta (1998). Its type specimen is ISI A 55, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is 0.75 km SE of Sahavan, which is in an Anisian terrestrial horizon in the Denwa Formation of India.

It was recombined as Stanocephalosaurus crookshanki by Schoch and Milner (2000); it was recombined as Paracyclotosaurus crookshanki by Damiani (2001).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1998Parotosuchus crookshanki Mukherjee and Sengupta
2000Stanocephalosaurus crookshanki Schoch and Milner p. 146
2001Paracyclotosaurus crookshanki Damiani p. 413

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
RankNameAuthor
classAmphibia
orderTemnospondyli()
—Eutemnospondyli
—Rhachitomi()
—Eryopiformes
—Stereospondylomorpha
—Stereospondyli()
—Superstes
—Capitosauria
—Capitosauroidea()
genusParacyclotosaurusWatson 1958
speciescrookshanki()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Paracyclotosaurus crookshanki Mukherjee and Sengupta 1998
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Diagnosis
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