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Cyclotosaurus posthumus

Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Cyclotosauridae

Taxonomy

Cyclotosaurus posthumus was named by Fraas (1913). It is not extant. Its type specimen is SMNS 12988, a partial skull. Its type locality is Burrer Quarry, Pfaffenhofen, which is in an Alaunian terrestrial sandstone/marl in the Löwenstein Formation of Germany.

Synonyms

Cyclotosaurus mordax was named by Fraas (1913).

It was synonymized subjectively with Cyclotosaurus posthumus by Kuhn (1971), Damiani (2001).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1889	Cyclotosaurus posthumus Fraas
1913	Cyclotosaurus mordax Fraas
1913	Cyclotosaurus posthumus Fraas
1965	Cyclotosaurus mordax Welles and Cosgriff p. 42
1965	Cyclotosaurus posthumus Welles and Cosgriff p. 43
1971	Cyclotosaurus posthumus Kuhn p. 7
1981	Cyclotosaurus posthumus Ingavat and Janvier p. 718 fig. 6
2000	Cyclotosaurus mordax Schoch and Milner
2001	Cyclotosaurus posthumus Damiani p. 402

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
class	Amphibia

Rank	Name	Author
order	Temnospondyli	()
—	Eutemnospondyli
—	Rhachitomi	()
—	Eryopiformes
—	Stereospondylomorpha
—	Stereospondyli	()
—	Superstes
—	Capitosauria
—	Capitosauroidea	()
family	Cyclotosauridae	Shishkin 1964
genus	Cyclotosaurus	Fraas 1889
species	posthumus	Fraas 1913

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.

†Cyclotosaurus posthumus Fraas 1913

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Invalid names: Cyclotosaurus mordax Fraas 1913 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

brackish, freshwater, terrestrialuc

Locomotion:

actively mobilesubo

Life habit:

amphibioussubo

Diet:

piscivoreg

Dispersal:

waterc

Created:

2009-01-03 21:13:41

Modified:

2009-01-03 23:13:41

Source: g = genus, subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade

References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Benton 1983, Uhen 2004

Age range: base of the Alaunian to the top of the Rhaetian or 215.38000 to 201.40000 Ma

Collections (3 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Norian	227.3 - 205.7	Germany (Baden-Wurttemberg)	Cyclotosaurus posthumus (138914)
Alaunian	215.38 - 211.18	Germany (Baden-Württemberg)	Cyclotosaurus posthumus (type locality: 47800)
Rhaetian	205.7 - 201.4	Germany (Sachsen-Anhalt)	Cyclotosaurus posthumus (139488)