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Eryosuchus rajareddyi

Amphibia - Temnospondyli

Taxonomy
Parotosaurus rajareddyi was named by Chowdhury (1970). Its type specimen is ISI A.18, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is 1 km west of Bhimaram village, which is in an Anisian terrestrial horizon in the Yerrapalli Formation of India.

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

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1970Parotosaurus rajareddyi Chowdhury
2000Stanocephalosaurus rajareddyi Schoch and Milner p. 147
2001Eryosuchus rajareddyi Damiani p. 407

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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()
genusEryosuchusOchev 1966
speciesrajareddyi()

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.

†Eryosuchus rajareddyi Chowdhury 1970
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Diagnosis
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