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Panthasaurus maleriensis

Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae

Taxonomy
Metoposaurus maleriensis was named by Chowdhury (1965). Its type specimen is ISI A56, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Achlapur 2, which is in a Carnian/Norian fluvial claystone in the Maleri Formation of India.

It was recombined as Buettneria maleriensis by Sengupta (2002); it was recombined as Panthasaurus maleriensis by Chakravorti and Sengupta (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1965Metoposaurus maleriensis Chowdhury p. 21
1990Metoposaurus maleriensis Jain p. 73
2002Buettneria maleriensis Sengupta
2018Panthasaurus maleriensis Chakravorti and Sengupta

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
classAmphibia
RankNameAuthor
orderTemnospondyli()
—Eutemnospondyli
—Rhachitomi()
—Eryopiformes
—Stereospondylomorpha
—Stereospondyli()
—Superstes
—Trematosauria
superfamilyTrematosauroidea
familyMetoposauridae
genusPanthasaurus
speciesmaleriensis()

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.

†Panthasaurus maleriensis Chowdhury 1965
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: brackish, freshwater, terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilesubo
Life habit: amphibioussubo
Diet: carnivoresubo
Dispersal: waterc
Created: 2009-07-20 21:44:54
Modified: 2009-07-20 23:44:54
Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Uhen 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Carnian to the top of the Norian or 237.00000 to 208.50000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Carnian - Norian237.0 - 208.5India (Telangana) Temnospondyli indet. (112285)
Carnian - Norian237.0 - 208.5India (Andhra Pradesh) Metoposaurus maleriensis (136899 type locality: 136900 136901)