Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Cyclotosauridae
Full reference: O. Kuhn. 1932. Labyrinthodonten und Parasuchier aus dem mittleren Keuper von Ebrach in Oberfranken. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 69:94-144
Belongs to Cyclotosaurus according to R. J. Damiani 2001
See also Ingavat and Janvier 1981, Kuhn 1971, Schoch and Milner 2000 and Watson 1958
Sister taxa: Capitosaurus, Cyclotosaurus buechneri, Cyclotosaurus hemprichi, Cyclotosaurus intermedius, Cyclotosaurus leptognathus, Cyclotosaurus naraserluki, Cyclotosaurus papilio, Cyclotosaurus posthumus, Cyclotosaurus robustus, Hercynosaurus, Hercynosaurus carinidens
Type specimen: BSPG 1931 X 1, a skull (Complete skull missing lower jaws). Its type locality is Ebrach, bed number 5, which is in a Carnian lacustrine sandstone in the Hassberge Formation of Germany.
Ecology: amphibious piscivore
Distribution: found only at Ebrach, bed number 5
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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