Cyclotosaurus naraserluki Marzola et al. 2017 (tetrapod)

Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Cyclotosauridae

Full reference: M. Marzola, O. Mateus, N. H. Shubin and L. B. Clemmensen. 2017. Cyclotosaurus naraserluki, sp. nov., a new Late Triassic cyclotosaurid (Amphibia, Temnospondyli) from the Fleming Fjord Formation of the Jameson Land Basin (East Greenland). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(2):e1303501

Belongs to Cyclotosaurus according to M. Marzola et al. 2017

Sister taxa: Capitosaurus, Cyclotosaurus buechneri, Cyclotosaurus ebrachensis, Cyclotosaurus hemprichi, Cyclotosaurus intermedius, Cyclotosaurus leptognathus, Cyclotosaurus papilio, Cyclotosaurus posthumus, Cyclotosaurus robustus, Hercynosaurus, Hercynosaurus carinidens

Type specimen: MGUH.VP 9522, a skull. Its type locality is Macknight Bjerg Quarry, which is in a Norian lacustrine - small claystone/sandstone in the Fleming Fjord Formation of Greenland.

Ecology: amphibious piscivore

Distribution: found only at Macknight Bjerg Quarry

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