Placodus gigas Agassiz 1833 (placodont)

Reptilia - Placodontia - Placodontidae

Synonyms: Anomosaurus strunzi Huene 1905, Omphalosaurus peyeri Maisch and Lehmann 2002, Placodus antiquior Huene 1936, Placodus hypsicephalus Meyer 1863, Placodus hypsiceps Meyer 1863, Placodus quinmolaris Braun 1863

Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1833. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome II (1re livraison) 1-48

Belongs to Placodus according to O. Rieppel 1995

See also Agassiz 1833, Agassiz 1839, Agassiz 1843, Kuhn 1971, Maisch 2010, Owen 1859, Owen 1861, Rieppel 1994, Seeley 1869 and Wintrich et al. 2017

Sister taxa: Crurosaurus problematicus, Placodus aethiops, Placodus andriani, Placodus angustus, Placodus bathygnathus, Placodus bombidens, Placodus duplicatus, Placodus gracilis, Placodus impressus, Placodus inexpectatus, Placodus pachygnathus, Placodus rugosus

Type specimens:

  • Placodus gigas: BSP AS VII 1208, a partial skull
  • Anomosaurus strunzi:
  • Omphalosaurus peyeri: GSUB V 1427, a maxilla. Its type locality is Rüdersdorf, near Berlin (Schaumkalk), which is in an Anisian marine horizon in the Jena Formation of Germany.
  • Placodus antiquior: Ha uncatalogued, a skull. Its type locality is Freyburg an der Unstrut, which is in an Anisian marine horizon in the Jena Formation of Germany.
  • Placodus hypsiceps: BT uncatalogued, a partial skull.
  • Placodus quinmolaris: BT uncatalogued.

Ecology: slow-moving amphibious durophage

Distribution:

• Triassic of Germany (19 collections), Italy (1), Poland (2)

Total: 22 collections including 23 occurrences

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